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In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of
our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary
story.
Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas,
Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies
to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash,
rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of
early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in
heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car
accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades
of unspoken grief.
When Laura Welch first left West Texas in
1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world
stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist
University in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the
country and at the dawn of the women's movement, she became an
elementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained
to be a librarian. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had
last passed in the hallway in seventh grade. Three months later, "the
old maid of Midland married Midland's most eligible bachelor." With rare
intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as
she was thrust into one of America's most prominent political families,
as well as her deep longing for children and her husband's decision to
give up drinking. By 1993, she found herself in the full glare of the
political spotlight. But just as her husband won the Texas governorship
in a stunning upset victory, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in
Midland.
In 2001, after one of the closest elections in
American history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she
captures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9/11,
when fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent
the family to an underground shelter. She writes openly about the White
House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and
the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of
the first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn
Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations
and tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in
Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop
urban violence. And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast
schools and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she writes of her visits
with U.S. troops and their loved ones, and of her empathy for and
immense gratitude to military families.
With deft humor and a
sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside
the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old
tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the
antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress.
She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public
triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her
sense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her
heart make this story revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any
other first lady's memoir ever written.
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