{"product_id":"spoken-from-the-heart","title":"Spoken from the Heart","description":"\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background:\r\n#FCFCFC\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span style=\"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:andquot;Helveticaandquot;,sans-serif;\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:andquot;Times New Romanandquot;;color:#383838;background:yellow\"\u0026gt;We're\r\noffering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damagedIn this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of\r\n our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary \r\nstory.Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, \r\nLaura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies \r\nto miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, \r\nrugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of\r\n early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in \r\nheart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car\r\n accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades \r\nof unspoken grief.  When Laura Welch first left West Texas in \r\n1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world \r\nstage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist \r\nUniversity in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the \r\ncountry and at the dawn of the women's movement, she became an \r\nelementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained \r\nto be a librarian. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had \r\nlast passed in the hallway in seventh grade. Three months later, \"the \r\nold maid of Midland married Midland's most eligible bachelor.\" With rare\r\n intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as \r\nshe was thrust into one of America's most prominent political families, \r\nas well as her deep longing for children and her husband's decision to \r\ngive up drinking. By 1993, she found herself in the full glare of the \r\npolitical spotlight. But just as her husband won the Texas governorship \r\nin a stunning upset victory, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in \r\nMidland.  In 2001, after one of the closest elections in \r\nAmerican history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she \r\ncaptures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9\/11, \r\nwhen fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent\r\n the family to an underground shelter. She writes openly about the White\r\n House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and\r\n the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of \r\nthe first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn \r\nAfghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations \r\nand tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in \r\nBurma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop \r\nurban violence. And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast \r\nschools and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she writes of her visits \r\nwith U.S. troops and their loved ones, and of her empathy for and \r\nimmense gratitude to military families.  With deft humor and a \r\nsharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside \r\nthe White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old \r\ntradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the \r\nantics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. \r\nShe writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public \r\ntriumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her \r\nsense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her \r\nheart make this story revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any \r\nother first lady's memoir ever written.","brand":"Laura Bush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213803155516,"sku":"RP9781439155202","price":850.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/spoken-from-the-heart-9781439155202.jpg?v=1776716235","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/spoken-from-the-heart","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}