THE PERFECT WIFE: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush
Ann Gerhart, . . Simon & Schuster, $24 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-4383-4
Gerhart's portrait of the first lady is much like the public perception of her: a pleasant, opaque woman and a conundrum. A schoolteacher with a master's degree in library science, Laura Bush is clearly intelligent and articulate. Yet despite her credentials and her husband's evident respect for her opinions, she appears, from this account, to have no influence on his education policies nor does she seem to want any. Her determination to be what Gerhart terms "an old-fashioned first lady" alternately fascinates and frustrates Gerhart, a
Reviewed on: 01/19/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
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