Susan Page
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The Matriarch tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era... As a girl in Rye, New York, Barbara Bush weathered criticism of her weight from her mother, barbs that left lifelong scars. As a young wife, she coped with the death of her three-year-old daughter from leukemia, a loss that changed her forever. In middle age, she grappled with depression so serious that she contemplated suicide....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
In the annals of broadcast journalism, Barbara Walters is legendary. Acclaimed for her monumental "gets," Walters interviewed a veritable who's who of twentieth-century politicians and celebrities, amassing a master class trove of spirited and probing interrogatories that famously reduced her subjects to tears. In an era when the business of broadcast news was a firmly established old boys club, Walters took a battering ram to those clubhouse doors...