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Ellie LeBlond Sosa has fond memories of summers spent at her grandparents' Kennebunkport, Maine home. Though that home is a heavily protected compound and her grandparents are George and Barbara Bush, life at the Bush family home was not that different from most American families, with football and tennis matches, taco Tuesdays, and holiday gatherings. The Bushes always made a deliberate effort to connect and be involved with their small Maine community,...
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She was the daughter of a single mother, a Hollywood movie star, the wife of one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century, and a cancer survivor. And she waged her greatest battle against her husband's Alzheimer's disease. Nancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life. Now, Mike Deaver, whose relationship with Mrs. Reagan dates back to the 1960s, shares the side of Nancy that only her intimates know. The Nancy Reagan with whom most Americans...
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He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career. She was a contract player at MGM, unmarried and rapidly growing too old to play the starlet. It was time, she decided, to settle down and become Mrs. Somebody Important. So, Nancy Davis contrived an introduction to Ronald Reagan, and the Reagans march into history began.
“The Reagans: Portrait...
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Chafe writes about the relationship between personality and politics in this work about the Clintons' "co-presidency." He argues that the personal chemistry between the Clintons definitively shaped their political careers: she was instrumental in his triumphs as Arkansas governor; he delegated presidential powers to her that no other First Lady had ever exercised. Full of insights about health care, Kenneth Starr, and welfare reform, Chafe gives texture...
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