An historian’s revealing and intimate family portrait of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush that explores their relationship as presidents so that as father and son-the first main biographical treatment of these two consequential presidents and numbers in American history.

In 2016 the Republican base revolted against the GOP establishment that has become synonymous using the Bush name, choosing instead a politics neophyte and anti-establishment outsider as the standard bearer of their party. Donald about THE FINAL Republicans: Inside the Incredible Romantic relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush Trump’s election proclaimed the end not only of the presidential dynasty, but a rejection from the Republican concepts and customs the Bushes have long championed. Regardless of the Republicans’ surprise success in 2016, behind closed doors the party remains divided between traditional conservatives, populists, and radical ideologues, and faces an uncertain potential. As presidential historian Tag K. Updegrove argues, Bush 41 and 43 are in effect, the ‘last Republicans.’

Within this balanced, illuminating book, Updegrove tells the story from the Bushes’ relationship from the birth of George W. through their post-presidential years and Jeb Bush’s failed candidacy. Drawing on exclusive access and interviews with both presidents and the main element people within their lives, Updegrove reveals the Bushes’ sights on the existing state of the nation and the GOP, and how the party they both led and helped build is certainly undergoing a radical transformation. Finally, the famously circumspect Bushes give unvarnished observations and revelations on from George W. Bush’s youthful indiscretions to the influence and perspectives that they had on each other’s administration to their sights on Donald Trump-and how they each voted in the 2016 election.

A candid and often surprising family portrait of two males, THE FINAL Republicans can be an elegy for the party of Reagan and Bush-and for the countless thoughtful and wise individuals who made up the ‘establishment,’ and are conspicuously without today’s GOP.