Laura Bush : an intimate portrait of the first lady / Ronald Kessler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Doubleday, Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385516215
  • 9780385516211
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Laura Bush.; Online version:: Laura Bush.DDC classification:
  • 973.931092 22
  • B 22
LOC classification:
  • E904.B87 K47 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Hostile terrain -- A crush on George -- Rock 'n' roll -- The end of the world -- The go-to girl -- Chateaux Dijon -- "I kinda like him" -- Miracle girls -- Dinner at the Broadmoor -- First Lady of Texas -- Into the White House -- First correspondent -- A private moment -- Call 911 -- Comforter-in-chief -- Culture wars -- Invasion -- "Hurry up, Bushie!" -- TLC -- Sex and the city -- Victory -- The un-ball -- Desperate housewife -- A visit by the First Lady.
Summary: The first biography of Laura Bush to be written with White House cooperation offers a look at the private world of this famously reserved woman, as well as the beliefs and attitudes that shape it. Based on interviews with her closest friends and confidantes from childhood to the present, as well as family members and administration heavyweights, Kessler paints a portrait of a woman who, even as she ascended to the heights of political fortune and power, never lost touch with the bedrock American values she absorbed in her youth. Kessler reveals how Laura's opinions have brought budget changes to a range of federal agencies and have affected her husband's policies, appointments, and worldview; what Laura's own political opinions are and what her relationship with twin daughters Jenna and Barbara is really like; what Laura says in private about Hillary Clinton, media attacks on her husband, and his victory in the 2004 election.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.

The first biography of Laura Bush to be written with White House cooperation offers a look at the private world of this famously reserved woman, as well as the beliefs and attitudes that shape it. Based on interviews with her closest friends and confidantes from childhood to the present, as well as family members and administration heavyweights, Kessler paints a portrait of a woman who, even as she ascended to the heights of political fortune and power, never lost touch with the bedrock American values she absorbed in her youth. Kessler reveals how Laura's opinions have brought budget changes to a range of federal agencies and have affected her husband's policies, appointments, and worldview; what Laura's own political opinions are and what her relationship with twin daughters Jenna and Barbara is really like; what Laura says in private about Hillary Clinton, media attacks on her husband, and his victory in the 2004 election.--From publisher description.

Hostile terrain -- A crush on George -- Rock 'n' roll -- The end of the world -- The go-to girl -- Chateaux Dijon -- "I kinda like him" -- Miracle girls -- Dinner at the Broadmoor -- First Lady of Texas -- Into the White House -- First correspondent -- A private moment -- Call 911 -- Comforter-in-chief -- Culture wars -- Invasion -- "Hurry up, Bushie!" -- TLC -- Sex and the city -- Victory -- The un-ball -- Desperate housewife -- A visit by the First Lady.

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