The matriarch : Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty
by Page, Susan (Author)
Summary
"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 tale of a... Full description
- 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
- DeĢtente
- The reluctant campaign
- Evicted
- First son
- A second first lady named Bush
- Dynasty
- "We've had enough Bushes"
- "Hit in the solarplex"
- Indispensable.