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The title of this carefully measured biography of First Lady Laura Bush can have an ironic double-meaning depending on which side of the political/sexual liberation divide one finds themselves. Compared with the driven Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton (predecessors whose level of public acceptance often seemed to vary in inverse proportion to their ambitions for themselves and their husbands), the former Laura Welch of Midland, Texas can often seem like a cipher. But the causes (education and literacy) she has quietly espoused from her White House pulpit have indeed been the driving passions of her life since her days as an SMU coed. Given the hyper-polarizing presidency of George W. Bush, veteran Washington Post Style writer Ann Gerhard is careful to walk a fine line between fact and wildly divergent public opinion--a task made even more challenging by her subject's natural reticence and aversion to overweening self-analysis. But neither does Gerhard shy away from personal tragedies (the death of a high school classmate caused by Laura running a stop sign) or her husband's snowballing controversies (alcohol, Harken, Air National Guard duty gap, economic and social policies, 9/11, Iraq) and the public foibles of their twin daughters. Gerhard portrays Laura as a woman of typical West Texas manners and reserve, yet one steely enough not to sacrifice her longstanding social concerns or sense of self amidst a modern political dynasty. In that sense she may well be her husband's better half. --Jerry McCulley

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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 Washington Post reporter who has been covering her since the 2001 inauguration. Both reactions are understandable. For all her research, Gerhart never answers the central question she posits: how did an independent, liberal (she voted for Eugene McCarthy) career woman who purposely chose to teach in a poor elementary school in Austin morph so successfully into a devoted wife whose life's ambition is to make sure her husband's world runs smoothly, even if it means subverting her own beliefs and desires? Laura Bush's submission is apparent in such observations by Gerhart: "I noticed how much more animated and commanding she was when acting solo. When she traveled with the president, she faded to the background." Then again, given how carefully Laura Bush guards her privacy and her feelings, it's doubtful anyone could have cracked that mystery. But Gerhart succeeds in steering clear of the "sneering and sniping" often directed at Laura Bush in this not unsympathetic probing of the first lady's mysteries.
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    * Hardcover: 224 pages
    * Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 6, 2004)
    * Language: English
    * ISBN-10: 0743243838
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Nobody's perfect but everyone's got a story!, May 11, 2004
By 	Dr Cathy Goodwin (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Gerhart's book is neither a puff piece nor a hatchet job. Readers seeking either will be disappointed. Gerhart instead presents a balanced, factual account of Laura Bush. And if you read between the lines, you will realize she's more complex than she appears.

First, as other reviewers noted, the most astounding piece of Laura's history is her car accident at age seventeen. There's no evidence that she had been drinking, yet she mysteriously ran a very visible stop sign. Even more mysteriously, the city declined to prosecute. She didn't even get a traffic tickert for running a stop sign and smashing into a truck, instantly killing the driver. Later she realized she had killed a good friend.

I can't help wondering where Laura Welch (her maiden name) would be today if she had been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Would she have gone on become an SMU sorority girl? A teacher and librarian?
Maybe the real lesson isn't that Laura got away with something but that we shouldn't be too quick to punish someone for a one-time mistake, however tragic.

And while Laura never talks about the "accident," there must have been long-lasting impact. Did this experience contribute to her shy, self-effacing qualities?

Relatedly, we get a sense of the Bush family dyamics. In his younger days, Bush did his share of drinking and partying. Laura had memories of her tragic accident. when Twins Jenna and Barbara grow up to be self-absorbed, uncontrollable brats. An analyst would have a field day with this family.

And there's the unspoken question. How does Laura Bush, a smart woman with mostly liberal friends, separate her husband's political persona from her own values? She does what she can and doesn't even try to impinge on her husband's territory.

We also learn about Laura Bush's book programs, where she invites authors to read and contribute. Most authors, being liberals, are reluctant to accept, but soon they are won over by Laura's intellect. She's a real reader.

And she's hardly a doormat. Barbara Bush would be a formidable mother-in-law but Laura avoids yielding. Nor does she take the easy way out. Barbara's issue was literacy, so Laura makes it clear her approach will be different.

I'm reminded of stories of another big Texan president, Lyndon Johnson Indeed, Laura refers to Johnson when she compares herself to other first ladies. Like Laura, Lady Bird knew when to push and when to back off, and she retained her own integrity.

After reading the book, it's hard to see how Laura and George came together so successfuly. They're opposite in many ways. Gerhart hints of disagreement on key political issues. Laura reads; George doesn't. Laura is devoted to her children; George flew to Florida for a planned vacation while Jenna underwent an emergency appendectomy. In the end, Perfect Wife isn't about politics. It's about a family that, with less wealth and public scrutiny, might be termed dysfunctional.

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An uneven effort redeemed by good reporting, January 30, 2004
By 	L Goodman-Malamuth "Leslie Goodman-Malamuth" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
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Ann Gerhart set the bar for herself very, very high by titling this book "The Perfect Wife." After reading this book twice, I feel that a better moniker would have been "An Almost-Perfect Life." Deft reporting redeems much of the book's unevenness: It's as fine a book as might be expected, given the extended Bush clan's passion for spin control. Penetrating the facade of the Bush family's interactions would try the patience of a skilled Kremlinologist. One gets the impression that Gerhart just got worn out and wrapped things up in fewer than 200 pages. This is especially unusual brevity for a biographical subject that the author actually has covered, met, and interviewed, as Gerhart has for The Washington Post.

The few factual errors are quite surprising, given their on-the-recordness: for example, Barbara Bush Sr. is not a "Smith graduate," as Gerhart avers, having dropped out to marry, and Mrs. Bush Sr.'s surviving daughter is identified as "Doro[thy] Koch Bush."

Gerhart begins with a trip to Midland, Texas, yielding a finely nuanced report of life in the '50s and '60s for affluent white kids like Laura Welch, a sheltered and adored only child. Her status in town did a great deal to protect her from the uglier consequences of killing a classmate, the town's golden boy, Mike Douglas, in a traffic accident when both were seventeen. (Laura's driver license was not even suspended.) Has this tragedy been the "turning point" in Laura's life that some claim it to be? If so, Laura herself changes the subject rapidly whenever it is raised.

Gerhart also does a fine job summarizing and filling out previously known data (about Laura and George W.'s whirlwind courtship, for instance). There's disappointingly little new information to share with readers, though it's nice to learn about Mrs. Bush's band of lifelong friends, and the fact that Laura voted for McCarthy in 1968. Even in face-to-face reported conversation with Gerhart, this undeniably smart woman comes off as surprisingly inarticulate and repetitive--probably due to her unceasing efforts at self-protection.

However, there are other facts (not opinions, facts) about the Bush family--including Laura on an intimate level--that a Google search can find in seconds. The author makes much of the issue that both Mr. and Mrs. Welch and Laura and George W. had looked into adopting children from what Gerhart calls "the Gladney home" in Fort Worth. (George and Laura abandoned this quest when she became pregnant with twins.) That's a poignant story. However, The Gladney Center is a well-known donor to Bush candidacies, and George W.'s brother Marvin and his wife Margaret, who speaks frequently as an adoption advocate, adopted two children from Gladney. There's a salient connection, missed in this book.

As an avid reader, I was keen to find out what Laura Bush actually reads during all those stints on the couch with a surreptitious cigarette. However, what Laura claims to read might have been concocted by a focus group--The Bible, Zora Neale Huston, "The Willie Mays Story." It was an endearingly personal touch to learn that Laura had chosen mystery writers Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol as the two females, among five writers, to lead a literary conference.

The section of this book that has drawn the most attention is Gerhart's depressing retelling of the antics of the sullen Bush twins. Their mother has publicly commented upon their actions (including multiple arrests) by saying, even after the girls turned 21, "They just want to do what other teenagers do." Gerhart implies that since the twins' gestation and birth was difficult, their mother has always viewed them as little miracles regardless of the tackiness of their actions.

Apart from reporting on the poshness of the travel and accommodations of various Bush family gatherings--Kennebunkport, The White House, the Vice-President's Mansion, various governors' mansions--Gerhart tells very little about Laura Bush's interactions with her in-laws, except for her formidable mother-in-law. Marvin, Neil, Jeb, and Doro are scarcely mentioned, though the index contains twelve lengthy references under "Bush family, politics as business of."

Four stars to Ann Gerhart for doing as good a job as she has, under the circumstances.

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interesting, a few new insights, February 13, 2004
By 	Karen Hudson "Karen Sampson Hudson" (Reno, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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Ann Gerhart tries heroically to get a handle on the character and personality of Laura Bush, but like other biographers before her, she is foiled by the fortress-like serenity of this imperturable woman. To readers familiar with Hippocrates' notion of the four basic temperaments, there is no doubt about it: Laura Bush is the poster child of the phlegmatic nature. She's the epitome of a stoic, self-contained woman who expends as little energy as possible in the course of living.

Perhaps the most striking example of this (in addition to her "late" marriage by the early-Boomer standards of her time) is her "hand-off" attitude toward her adolescent daughters, a kind of detached resignation which has forced their father into an unlikely role as disciplinarian.

"Laura-Steady-as-she-goes" is the extremely apt nickname given to her by father-in-law George. An enigma even to the most gifted biographers, she's a tough subject. Gerhart has done a little better than most, although she does reiterate some well-known facts of Bush's life. One of the most burning questions women might want answered is, why did she marry someone so far beneath her levels of intellect and emotional maturity? "He makes me laugh," Bush tells Gerhart, and uses the word "laugh" five times in one short response regarding her husband. Somehow, this reader cannot identify and must conclude wonderingly, "It must be a phlegmatic thing." (!)

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