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008			940408s1994 nyua 001 0aeng
010			_a 94013829
015			_aGB9615343 _2bnb
020			_a0025196359
020			_a9780025196353
020			_a0025192752 _q(signed ed.)
020			_a9780025192751 _q(signed ed.)
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050	0	0	_aE883.B87 _bA3 1994
082	0	0	_a973.928/092/2 _220
100	1		_aBush, Barbara, _d1925- _924297
245	1	0	_aBarbara Bush : _ba memoir /
260			_aNew York : _bScribner's Sons, _c�1994.
300			_ax, 575 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
500			_a"A Lisa Drew book."
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aPrologue -- Growing up -- Love and war -- Striking out on our own -- Robin -- Oh, the glamorous world of politics -- A different world -- The United Nations -- Surviving Watergate -- China -- Keeping secrets -- Hitting the campaign trail -- Around the world and back -- The poet laureate (retired) -- The 1988 campaign -- "Please guide and guard us" -- The first 100 days -- Whirlwind first year -- Flying chain saws -- The storm before the storm -- Desert Storm -- Of cabbages and queens -- "Back & forth and ups & downs" -- The campaign -- "One last time" -- A new beginning.
520			_aBarbara Bush is certainly among the most popular First Ladies ever to live in the White House. Politics aside, people worldwide have come to admire her wit, her candor and compassion, as well as her unswerving devotion to her husband and children. In her memoir, Mrs. Bush for the first time gives readers a very private look at a life lived in the public eye for more than twenty-five years. She begins with a compelling portrait of her early years, including: growing up in Rye, New York, and meeting George Bush; life as a young bride and mother, moving far away from home to West Texas; and the almost unbearable pain of losing a child. With contemporary American history as the backdrop, Mrs. Bush remembers the shock of learning that her fiance has been shot down in the Pacific during World War II; the disbelief when a black friend is refused service in a Southern restaurant in the 1950s; and the fear when she is caught in the middle of a student protest march in the 1960s. She recounts her years in public life, from first moving to Washington when George Bush was elected to Congress; to her experience living in New York as the wife of the Ambassador to the United Nations and in China as wife of the U.S. envoy. She talks candidly about the ups and downs of three presidential campaigns and describes her role as the wife of the Vice President, culminating in the climactic White House years. Drawing upon excerpts from her diary, which she has compiled for more than thirty years, Mrs. Bush takes us behind the scenes of the Persian Gulf conflict and the end of the Cold War. She talks about both the Bushes' struggle to overcome Graves' disease and how she faced the controversy that erupted at Wellesley College before her commencement speech. Through the friendships she developed over the years with world leaders and their spouses, we meet and get to know the Gorbachevs, the Thatchers, the Mitterrands, the Mubaraks, and many others. And she tells us why she threw so much of her energy and compassion behind the important cause of making more Americans literate. This memoir includes hundreds of the funny, often self-deprecating, and occasionally touching anecdotes for which Mrs. Bush is well known: surprising a rat while swimming in the White House pool; accidentally stomping on Boris Yeltsin's foot under the table during a state dinner; wearing a $29 pair of shoes for her husband's inaugural ball. She also talks about the disappointments of the 1992 presidential campaign and the joys of rediscovering private life, including driving and cooking again for the first time in twelve years. This is a warm and funny memoir that will charm Mrs. Bush's millions of admirers and earn her many more.
600	1	0	_aBush, Barbara, _d1925- _924297
600	1	0	_aBush, George, _d1924- _925291
650		0	_aPresidents' spouses _zUnited States _vBiography. _97919
653	0		_aPresidents _aWives
653	0		_aUnited States
655		0	_aBiography. _996793
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBush, Barbara, 1925- _tBarbara Bush. _dNew York : Scribner's Sons, �1994 _w(OCoLC)606531233
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBush, Barbara, 1925- _tBarbara Bush. _dNew York : Scribner's Sons, �1994 _w(OCoLC)624482836
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0645/94013829-s.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0645/94013829-t.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/94013829.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon031/94013829.html
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