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Piercy, Marge. The Third Child.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Dec. 2003. 352p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-621116-6).
Piercy is adept at fashioning provocatively topical plots and vivid characters in order to explore the psychological complexities of families, relationships between men and women, and various forms of social injustice. In her sixteenth riveting novel, Melissa Dickinson is the unloved third child in a prominent political family, and the bane of her beautiful WASPy mother, a consummate politician's wife, who is militarily well organized and ruthlessly ambitious for her handsome, stain-resistant husband, formerly a hardhearted governor of Pennsylvania, currently a senator with an eye on the White House. Melissa is nothing like her lovely older sister, politico-clone older brother, or easygoing younger ...
- The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Riley, Russell L. March 1, 2006 700+ words
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House. By John F. Harris. New York: Random...Clinton presidency. Harris covered the White House for the Washington Post from 1995 to...relationships he developed as a member of the White House press corps to leaven his account with...
- Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House.(Book...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Fischer, Raymond L. March 1, 2006 700+ words
...President, the Press, and My Years in the White House BY ARI FLEISCHER WILLIAM MORROW, HARPER...a love/hate relationship with the White House press corps. Although Fleischer never...behind the scenes; and analyzes the White House press corps, "one of the toughest...
- Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of International Women's Studies Burstrem, Jessica May 1, 2007 700+ words
...Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House. John Robert Greene. 2004. Lawrence...Greene's Candor and Courage in the White House covers Betty Ford's entire life...its focus is on her short time in the White House. In the relevant sections of the book...
- John Robert Greene. Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review Neumann, Caryn March 22, 2006 700+ words
...Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas...Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House, John Robert Greene traces the life...with guest lists and picnics on the White House lawn, she also proved to be outspoken...
- Pastor to presidents.(The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Long, Michael G. December 11, 2007 700+ words
...the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House. By Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy...the hard way: "When you get to the White House, don't play golf with him," Graham...this from a man who swam naked in the White House pool.) Gibbs and Duffy make much of...
- Egil Krogh tells his story in "Integrity".(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Integrity: Good...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Leddy, Chuck December 11, 2007 700+ words
...unlike Nixon himself or Nixon's other White House conspirators, Krogh did the unthinkable...the Watergate investigation, despite White House efforts to cover it up. Under federal...administration, explaining how the Nixon White House had experienced "a major breakdown...
- When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after The White House.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian White, Richard D., Jr. September 22, 2006 700+ words
When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after The White House. By Patricia O'Toole. (New York, N.Y.: Simon...trumpet calls" (282, 2). Only fifty when he left the White House, Roosevelt sped off to Africa on a grand safari and...
- Backcountry boy.(books, arts & manners)(American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the...
- Magazine article from: National Review Beran, Michael Knox December 1, 2008 700+ words
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham (Random House, 483 pp., $30) [ILLUSTRATION...youth was startled to learn that he was a candidate for the White House: "What! Jackson up for president? Jackson? Andrew Jackson...
