The matriarch Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty

"A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and underappreciated women in American political history. Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. [This book] tells the riveting...

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Main Author: Page, Susan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Twelve, 2019.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Six brutal months
  • "The fighting Pierces"
  • The football star and the campus beauty
  • Stuck in the middle
  • Love and war
  • "The street cop"
  • How hard could it be?
  • Darkness
  • "What are we going to do about Bar?"
  • The frost that never thawed
  • Triumph
  • First at last
  • Grandma's house
  • The reckoning
  • DeĢtente
  • The reluctant campaign
  • Evicted
  • First son
  • A second first lady named Bush
  • Dynasty
  • "We've had enough Bushes"
  • "Hit in the solarplex"
  • Indispensable.