The matriarch : Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty
(Large Print)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-579).

The Matriarch tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era. Written by USA Today's Washington Bureau chief Susan Page, this biography is informed by more than one hundred interviews with Bush friends and family members, hours of conversation with Mrs. Bush herself in the final six months of her life, and access to her diaries that spanned decades. The Matriarch examines not only her public personal but also less well-known aspects of her remarkable life. As with many women of her era, Barbara Bush was routinely underestimated, her contributions often neither recognized nor acknowledged. But she became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist and a beloved Fist Lady. With her cooperation, this book offers Barbara Bush's last words for history-on the evolution of her party on the role of women, on Donald Trump, and on her family legacy. Barbara Bush's accomplishments, struggles, and contributions are many. Now, Susan Page explores them all in The Matriarch, a groundbreaking book certain to cement Barbara Bush as one of the most unique and influential women in American History.