description: "When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush's footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton?" ""I think I'll just be Laura Bush," she would say." "The Bushes are more effective than the FBI or CIA at keeping secret what goes on behind the scenes at the White House, the ranch, or Camp David. Now, New York Times author Ronald Kessler draws back that curtain in the first biography of Laura Bush to be written with White House cooperation. Based on interviews with her closest friends and confidantes from childhood to the present, as well as family members and administration heavyweights like Condoleeza Rice and Andrew Card, 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." "In this account, 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; why Laura told her press secretary in May 2001 she did not want to do any more media interviews; what President Bush said to Laura at the dinner table after giving the "go" for the invasion of Iraq, and what his father, former President George H. W. Bush, wrote him the next day about the war; 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; and how Laura, at the age of seventeen, missed a stop sign and caused a fatal accident that tragically left one of her best friends dead." Laura Bush offers a look at the private world of this famously reserved woman, as well as the beliefs and attitudes that shape it. The book will surprise readers whose k
language: English
title: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
titlecomplete: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
genres: Biography, Politics, Nonfiction, American History, History
ratings_count: 510
publisher: RH Audio