Barbara Bush Presidential Matriarch |
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| Author:
| Gutin, Myra G. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7006-2740-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2018 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Kansas
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $32.50USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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"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."--
John Robert Greene, author of
The Presidency of George Bush "A crisp and clean account of Barbara...
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"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."--
John Robert Greene, author of
The Presidency of George Bush "A crisp and clean account of Barbara Bush's emergence as one of the most compelling first ladies of our time. . . . Well-written and well worth reading."--Gil Troy, author of Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Savvy and insightful."--Herbert S. Parmet, author of George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee