The Joe Bev Experience

Interviews

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Interviewee:

Ford, Betty
Bush, Barbara
Alaskey, Joe
Bergen, Bob
Blanc, Noel
Canova, Diana
Foray, June
Frees, Fred
Gari, Brian
Grandinetti, Fred
Houseman, John
Johnson, Lady Bird
Mendoza, Steve
Ossman, David
Proctor, Phil
Waldo, Janet

Read by:

Ford, Betty
Bush, Barbara
Johnson, Claudia Alta
Johnson, Lady Bird

Author:

Bevilacqua, Joe

Compiled by:

Bevilacqua, Joe

Interviewer:

Bevilacqua, Joe

Speaker:

Kellogg, Lorie

ISBN:

978-1-5047-5026-4

Publication Date:

Jul 2016

Publisher:

Blackstone Audio, Incorporated

Book Format:

CD-Audio

List Price:

USD $54.95

Book Description:

Veteran Radio Personality (NPR, Sirius XM Radio) Joe Bev presents his favorite conversations with such highly diverse people as Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, John Houseman, June Foray, Diana Canova, Fred Frees, Bob Bergen, Phil Proctor, Joe Alaskey, Steve Mendoza, Noel Blanc, David Ossman, Janet Waldo, Fred Grandinetti, and others!

Bonus Track! Joe Bevilacqua hosts an hour with Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Sarah...
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Book Details

Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):

5.2 x 5.7 Inches

Author Biography

Bevilacqua, Joe (Interviewee)

Betty Ford, 1918 - Elizabeth Anne Bloomer Ford was born on 1918 in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, here she graduated from high school. She studied Modern Dance at Bennington College in Vermont. She then went to New York and joined Martha Graham's concert group as well as working as a model for the John Roberts Powers firm.

Ford eventually went back to Grand Rapids and became a fashion coordinator in a department store. She also organized a dance group and taught dance to handicapped children. Her first marriage had ended after five years, but Betty married Gerald Ford in 1948, becoming an active supporter in his campaign. She did not plan on being the First Lady, it came as something of a surprise but she met the challenge head on, speaking out on controversial subjects such as the Equal Rights Amendment.

In 1974, Ford underwent surgery for breast cancer and spoke about her struggle with the disease, hoping that, as First Lady, she could make the world more aware of the plight of women. She also spoke of her own dependence on alcohol and drugs and helped establish the Betty Ford Center, a place for people to go who wanted to recover from drug and alcohol abuse.

She has written her own memoirs, "Betty: A Glad Awakening" as well as books on drug abuse and books about being a part of American History.

Betty Ford died July, 8, 2011.

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