-- Why Bush's parents pressured him to break off his engagement to his first fiancee
-- How he avoided the draft at the height of Vietnam and remained stateside in the National Guard
-- Investigation by the SEC of possible insider trading for which Bush was never charged, after Bush sold almost a million dollars' worth of oil company stock a week before his firm posted a $23 million loss
Fortunate Son is a balanced, engrossing portrait of a man at the threshold of history.