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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures. Yet her full story has never been told. THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman directly responsible for two American presidencies and for helping to define an entire political era. Written by USA TODAY's Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, the book is punctuated by more than 100 interviews with Bush friends and family members, hours of conversations with Mrs. Bush herself before her death, and access to her diaries that spanned decades. THE MATRIARCH will also delve into less well-known aspects of Bush's remarkable life: as a girl in Rye, New York, she weathered criticism of her looks and weight from a disapproving mother, which left lifelong scars; as a young wife, she coped with the death of her three-year-old daughter to leukemia, a loss that defined the rest of her life; in middle age, she grappled with depression that led her to contemplate suicide; and in triumph, she became first the wife and then the mother of an American President, the only woman in history to life through both her husband's and her son's terms of office.While her own political beliefs sometimes differed from her husband's, Barbara Bush nevertheless became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist, helping him to gain the nomination and win the election. She invested herself deeply in expanding literacy programs in America, played a critical role in the end of the Cold War, and led the way for demonstrating love and compassion to victims of HIV/AIDS. 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's legacy.Barbara Bush's accomplishments, struggles, and contributions are many. Now, Susan Page brings them all into one place in THE MATRIARCH, a book certain to cement Barbara Bush as one of the most unique and influential figures in American history.
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Repeat Oprah guest Susan Page has been conducting workshops for both singles and couples, nationally and internationally since 1980. She has keynoted dozens of relationship conventions and was invited to share the platform with John Gray at his recent Masonic Auditorium event in San Francisco. Her international speaking and media career has taken her to twenty-six states, Canada, Korea, Australia, and Mexico. She is a past chapter president of the National Speakers Association.Page was a consultant to writer/director Gary Goldberg on the movie Must Love Dogs, released by Warner Pictures in August of 2005.A veteran of national television and radio, Susan Page has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, Donahue, Geraldo, Leeza, Montel Williams, Sonya Live, The Diane Rehm Show plus dozens of other radio and TV shows across the country.Excerpts of Susan's works have appeared or been reviewed in People Magazine, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Glamour, Self, New Woman, McCall's, Woman, Marriage and scores of other publications.Susan Page is the author of four books about relationships plus a publishing guide for writers.Her first book, If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? has been translated into twenty foreign languages. It was the number one bestseller in Russia in 1994. Page's books have sold more than a million copies in the U.S. and worldwide.Susan Page is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds a Master of Divinity degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary. She began her career as campus minister at Washington University in St. Louis and at Columbia University in New York. Later, she served as Director of Women's Programs at the University of California, Berkeley, where she helped found the nation's first university-based human sexuality program.When she is not conducting workshops in the United States, Susan Page lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with her husband of twenty-five years.
