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Spoken from the Heart

de Laura Bush

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In a captivating and compelling voice that ranks with many of the greatest memoirists, Laura Bush tells the story of her unique path from dusty Midland, Texas, to the world stage as First Lady. She captures presidential life in the frantic and fearful months after 9/11, and humorously lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House.… (més)
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I really liked the first half of this book. It was so interesting and flowed really well. The last third of the book was harder to push through. It was a lot of dates and names and details about nothing really inciteful. ( )
  MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |
Laura Bush grew up an only child in Texas. As an only child, she loved reading and later became a teacher and a librarian. Two things that affected her growing up years were: At the age of 17, she was driving with a friend and hit and killed one of her close friends, a boy driving from another direction. The other thing was the shooting President John F. Kennedy in Texas. Laura met George Bush and they were engaged after six weeks. George was very interested in politics and Laura was not, but she helped him campaign as he ran for congress, then governor of Texas and finally President of the United States. The Bush family was left in limbo after the 2000, presidential election when the state of Florida’s election process was in question, and the Supreme Court finally had to rule that the manual Florida recount had violated the Constitution. The event of September 11, 2001 happened during her husband’s presidency. President Bush was flown all of the country during September 11, to make sure he was safe. At the end of the day, Sept 11, the secret service wanted the president to stay away from Washington, D.C., but he insisted that they return to White House to make sure his family was safe. Then came the anthrax mail scare and mail all over the country was held up and examined. Mrs. Bush candidly speaks about her marriage, her relationship to the Bushes and the birth of her twin daughters. She inserts numerous tidbits of history in speaking of their days in the White House. She talks frankly about the White House events, her numerous trips and meeting various people. This is an eye-opening book about Laura’s life and living in the White House. ( )
  dara85 | Oct 7, 2020 |
More like 3.5 stars. I enjoyed reading this. I learned a lot about the ways Mrs. Bush used her platform to advance literacy, women's health and education, and other causes, most of which I remember hearing little about at the time. The tone is reserved, but her classiness and warm heart for others shine through. In many ways, the best part of the book is the scene-setting of the first two chapters, as she reminisces about her dusty West Texas upbringing. The section on 9/11 also brought back startlingly visceral memories, reminding me just how scary the aftermath was, as well as what a weird time the early '00s were to be coming of age.

She also writes movingly of the odd melancholy of being an only child, and of the longing for children. ( )
  LudieGrace | Aug 10, 2020 |
With rare intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about growing up in the boom oil town of Midland, Texas as an only child to marrying into one of America's most prominent political families. ( )
  SABC | Aug 10, 2019 |
I started American Wife because it was “loosely based on the life of Laura Bush”. Didn’t finish that book but this book was a much better use. Of my time. ( )
1 vota Mnpose | Aug 4, 2019 |
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What she gives you is pretty much what you expected to get. Digging deeper will turn up no greater revelation.
 
Laura Bush’s new memoir, “Spoken From the Heart,” is really two books. The first is a deeply felt, keenly observed account of her childhood and youth in Texas — an account that captures a time and place with exacting emotional precision and that demonstrates how Mrs. Bush’s lifelong love of books has imprinted her imagination. The second book is a thoroughly conventional autobiography by a politician’s wife — a rote recitation of travel, public appearances and meetings with foreign dignitaries that sheds not the faintest new light on the presidency of the author’s husband, George W. Bush.
 
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For the joys of my heart, my husband George; my daughters Barbara and Jenna; my mother and the memory of my dad.
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In a captivating and compelling voice that ranks with many of the greatest memoirists, Laura Bush tells the story of her unique path from dusty Midland, Texas, to the world stage as First Lady. She captures presidential life in the frantic and fearful months after 9/11, and humorously lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House.

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