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Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch (Modern First Ladies)
Myra G. Gutin
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Description for Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch (Modern First Ladies)
Hardcover. Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors. This title reveals a woman who was more of a success as first lady than her husband was as president - who in many ways was the public face of the George H W Bush administration. Series: Modern First Ladies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors. A White House resident for only four years, she nevertheless became and remains one of the most admired women in the world.This new look at Barbara Bush draws on recently opened records at the Bush library, the first lady's many speeches, interviews with the first lady's staff, and an exclusive interview with Mrs. Bush to impart a new appreciation for this beloved former first lady. And while other biographies - and her own memoir - ... Read more
Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors. A White House resident for only four years, she nevertheless became and remains one of the most admired women in the world.This new look at Barbara Bush draws on recently opened records at the Bush library, the first lady's many speeches, interviews with the first lady's staff, and an exclusive interview with Mrs. Bush to impart a new appreciation for this beloved former first lady. And while other biographies - and her own memoir - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Modern First Ladies
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615834
SKU
V9780700615834
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About Myra G. Gutin
Myra Gutin is professor of communication at Rider University and author of The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century.
Reviews for Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch (Modern First Ladies)
A fascinating, impeccably researched, and long overdue biography by one of the nation's leading experts on the American first lady. Gutin shows that this wife of one president and mother of a second was hardly just a grandmother in pearls, but a shrewd, thoughtful, and humorous political partner to two presidents named Bush. This is political biography at its best. ... Read more