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Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors. This title reveals a woman who was more of a success as first lady than her husband was as president - who in many ways was the public face of the George H W Bush administration.

Includes essays ranging from Xenophon's memoir of his two-year march with the mercenaries of the Persian Prince Cyrus, through Canadian accounts of the Boer War and American civilian women's narratives of confinement in WWII Japanese internment camps, to Vietnam veterans' online testimonials and post - Persian Gulf War memoirs.

Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Along with discussing how she left her mark on Broadway, Hollywood, radio, and television, this book explores Colbert's lifelong interests in painting, fashion design, and commercial art.