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The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush |  | Author: Gerhart
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 221469
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0743243838
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931092
EAN: 9780743243834
ASIN: 0743243838
Publication Date: January 19, 2004
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Less Than Meets the Eye February 20, 2004
takingadayoff (Las Vegas, Nevada)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
Let me admit up front that I am not a George W. Bush fan. But I thought there must be a deeper, more complex Laura Bush.pAnn Gerhart's book is well written and I could not stop reading it once I started. There are lots of interesting tidbits (Laura Bush smokes cigarettes, but never in public) and revealing anecdotes and interviews. The chapter on the twins is ruthless. In another chapter, Gerhart describes in detail the tragic car accident that Laura Bush caused when she was only seventeen, and what a traumatic experience it was for all concerned.pSo how does a woman who voted for liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy, who hangs out with liberal friends, and who loves her work, meet a guy who is running for congress on a Republican ticket and marry him six weeks later, giving up forever a career she has wanted since she was in second grade? I was certain that there was more to Laura Bush than meets the eye. After reading The Perfect Wife, I am convinced that there is less.pPerhaps she could not abide the thought of staying single into her thirties. I don't doubt that she loves George and that he loves her. It is obvious what George gets out of the deal. Less obvious is what Laura gets. One (male) interviewee suggested to Gerhart that George was irresistibly handsome and sexy. Please.pThere is little evidence that Laura Bush is an introspective person. She reads a lot and knows what she thinks, even if the rest of us don't. But if she ever does evaluate her life and her decisions, I wonder how she will come to grips with having left the desperately important job of teaching at-risk children to raise a pair of self-centered and inconsiderate girls. And further, to lend support to a man who is dismantling the most important social programs this nation has. Will she ever speak out? pGerhart leaves a lot of questions unanswered, but by the time you finish The Perfect Wife, you will have enough information to form your own opinion about Laura Bush.
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