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Bush Presidential Center website seems decidedly partisan and unscholarly

When Southern Methodist University decided to go ahead with plans to become the site not only of President George W. Bush’s presidential library, but also an affiliated policy center, some historians feared a distortion of the historical record. The Dallas Morning News reported that a recent addition to the Bush Presidential Center’s Web site isn’t doing anything to reassure scholars about even-handedness. To understand the “legacy” of the Bush administration, the center links to the Web site not of historians, but of the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association, where “Recent Bush Record Documents” features three choices: “The Bush Record: Praise for President’s Accomplishments,” “The Bush Record: More Praise for President’s Accomplishments,” and “The Bush Record: Praise Continues for President’s Accomplishments.”
Read entire article at Scott Jaschik at the website of Inside Higher Ed