Bruce R. Bartlett

Despite what his supporters say, President Bush has far more in common with Richard Nixon than Ronald Reagan. That's the idea put forth in economist and syndicated columnist Bruce Bartlett's new book, Impostor.

He is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. His twice-weekly column on economic policy is published in The Washington Times and Detroit News and is nationally syndicated. He was deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, from September 1988 to January 1993. In 1987 and 1988, Bartlett was a senior policy analyst in the Office of Policy Development at the White House. Before that, he was a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.