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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.
On Saturday, April 30, 2005, the world got a glimpse of what that
meant when she pushed aside the leader of the free world and stole
the show at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Wearing a shimmering lime green Oscar de la Renta gown, Laura
wisecracked that she was a “desperate housewife” married to a
president who was always asleep at nine.
Replayed constantly on the air, the stand-up routine with its
impeccable comedic timing turned the first lady into a glittering
star. But while the performance catapulted her to new status, it
did not answer the question of who this former teacher and
librarian really is and just what role she plays in influencing her
husband and shaping his administration. 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 bestselling 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
Condoleezza 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 unprecedented 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 why 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 remarkable 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 knowledge of the
first lady comes from cautious media interviews and speeches.
Laura Bush’s approval rating stands at 85 percent. Since opinion
polls first began asking about them, no first lady has received a
higher rating. This moving biography is the first to penetrate the
secret world of the president’s stealth counselor who is one of our
most admired public figures.
“Laura Bush is a remarkable woman—a great mother, daughter,
daughter-in-law, and, of course, first lady. The thing that makes
this gentle, bright woman dearer than all of the above is that she
makes the president, our son, happy. Ron Kessler does a great job
of capturing the spirit of Laura Bush.”
—Former First Lady Barbara Bush
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