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A carregar... Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Lifepor Jenna Bush Hager, Barbara Pierce Bush
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Amazing perspective of many White House years, on par with the Roosevelt families, and before them the Adams, as the Bush twins practically grew up there. Most impressive is Barbara Bush's account, when she was in college, a feasible drive distance from Yankee stadium, where she watched and described with passion her father, President George W. Bush throw out the first pitch =) I probably never would have read this book, but I've recently been on a books-about-First-Ladies kick. After reading First Lady Barbara Bush's biography and learning how complex and sometimes different she was from her husband (she was pro-choice), I decided to embark on a similar journey with the younger Bush clan. I had a rather negative view of George W. Bush before reading this book. To put it bluntly, I thought he was a fratty partier, puppeteered by Dick Cheney. But the Bush sisters helped me humanize their dad. The president who I thought was a frat star has actually been sober since his daughters were two or three. The president who sent our nation (and my own dad) to Iraq was deeply hurt and emotional upon making and sustaining this decision. The president whose own father exacerbated the HIV/AIDS crisis in the U.S. created the first-ever policies to address AIDS domestically and abroad. The women in George W. Bush's life are redeeming factors for me. His wife, Laura Bush, a librarian and teacher, is passionate about lifting up women around the globe and environmental conservation. I admire her greatly. His daughter, the younger Barbara Pierce Bush, founded the Global Health Corps to eradicate HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases around the globe. She's also a fierce advocate for women. And neither of George W. Bush's daughters are registered Republicans. It shows me that although they hail from America's Republican family dynasty, they are brave enough to lean into their own beliefs as individuals and work toward a better country as they see fit. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML:The former first daughters share intimate stories and reflections from the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond. Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story. In Sisters First, Jenna and Barbara take readers on a revealing, thoughtful, and deeply personal tour behind the scenes of their lives, as they share stories about their family, their unexpected adventures, their loves and losses, and the sisterly bond that means everything to them. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I loved getting an insight into the Bush family. But I learned so much about their heart for African women.....or Jenna's start at the Today show......or the family summers in Maine. It was a nice read. ( )