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In this daring, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our own most much loved and private first girls, tells her own outstanding history.
Born in the boom-and-bust engine oil town of Midland, Tx, Laura Welch was raised as an only child in a family that lost three newborns to miscarriage or newborn death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, robust culture, her close romance with her father, and the bonds of early on friendships that support her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she creates about the damaging high school car crash that still left her friend Mike Douglas inactive and about her generations of unspoken grief.
When Laura Welch first still left West Tx in 1964, she never imagined that her trip would lead her to the planet stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist School in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the country with the dawn of the women's motion, she became an primary school teacher, working in inner-city classes, then trained to be always a librarian. At era thirty, she satisfied George W. Bush, whom she got last handed down in the hallway in seventh class. Three months later, "the old maid of Midland committed Midland's most entitled bachelor." With exceptional intimacy and candor, Laura Bush creates about her early on marriage as she was thrust into one of America's most prominent political individuals, as well as her deep longing for children and her husband's decision to give up drinking alcohol. By 1993, she found herself in the entire glare of the political spotlight. And her husband earned the Tx governorship in a sensational upset triumph, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in Midland.
In 2001, after one of the closest elections in American background, Laura Bush changed into the White House. Here she catches presidential life in the harrowing days and nights and weeks after 9/11, when fighter-jet cover echoed through the wall surfaces and security scares sent the family for an underground shelter. She creates openly about the White House during wartime, the withering and relentless press spotlight, and the change of her role as she started to understand the energy of the first girl. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African countries and tirelessly advocated for women in the center East and dissidents in Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and stop urban assault. And she was a major push in rebuilding Gulf Coast classes and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she creates of her trips with U.S. soldiers and themselves, and of her empathy for and enormous gratitude to armed service individuals.
With deft humor and a sharpened eyesight, Laura Bush elevates the drape on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential funds to the 175-year-old traditions of individual bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House friends and a good few users of Congress. She creates with credibility and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her love of life, her grace, and her unusual willingness to bare her heart and soul make this history revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike another first lady's memoir ever before written.
