{"id":442061,"date":"2026-09-20T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442061\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:56:10","slug":"george-w-bush-book-of-paintings-of-political-prisoners-due-next-year-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442061\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush book of paintings of political prisoners due next year \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President George W. Bush has a new book of oil paintings coming out in March, featuring portraits of political prisoners and dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguin Random House imprint Crown announced Wednesday that \u201cThe Call of Freedom: Portraits of Political Prisoners and Dissidents\u201d will be released March 9 and coincide with an exhibition of Bush&#8217;s art at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. The new book will include Bush&#8217;s portraits of such symbols of oppression as the late Mahsa Amini, whose death in 2022 while in the custody of Iranian authorities led to nationwide protests, and the imprisoned Nicaraguan bishop Rolando Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Call of Freedom,\u201d the third collection of Bush&#8217;s art, will include 44 paintings and biographical sketches of each subject. Former Soviet Union dissident Natan Sharansky is contributing a foreword.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bush-artwork-call-of-freedom.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Paintings of Rushan Abbas and Rolando Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Lagos by President George W. Bush.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tPenguin Random HousePenguin Random House<\/p>\n<p>Paintings of Rushan Abbas and Rolando Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Lagos by President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book, coupled with our work at the Bush Institute, is a chance for me to send a message that the United States cares deeply about people seeking freedom,\u201d Bush writes. \u201cAnd hopefully these stories will remind us that we who live in liberty have a duty to stand with those who do not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book champions human rights even as Bush&#8217;s own record as president has led to frequent criticism, whether the CIA\u2019s use of waterboarding or the abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.<\/p>\n<p>Bush took up painting after leaving office in 2009. His previous books include \u201cPortraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief\u2019s Tribute to America\u2019s Warriors\u201d and \u201cOut of Many, One: Portraits of America\u2019s Immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former President George W. Bush has a new book of oil paintings coming out in March, featuring portraits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71462,102,104,103,21219],"class_list":["post-442061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-bush-center","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-george-w-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}