I got this book at the library because it was the only biography of Laura Bush that my branch had. Reading through it, I thought it must have been mis-cataloged, because it appears to be written for a Young Adult reader, but checking the publication information, it appears to have been intended for an adult audience. My confusion was understandable given that this book repeatedly assumes no prior knowledge of basic reality prior to about 1995, by multiple instances of including information such as that there was no Internet back in the 1960s when Mrs. Bush was in high school and that the south was segregated. After referring many dozens of times to one of Mrs. Bush's friends, he inserts a note as to how her name is pronounced, seemingly apropos of nothing. The information of the book is extremely thin and spread out between pages of vacuous insights of the fact that Mrs. Bush's friends like her and speak highly of her. I hope for Mr.Kessler's sake that he did not actually write this book and the poor quality of the writing is the fault of his writing "assistant"/ghostwriter. I guess the editors of the Broadway Publishing firm were not worried about the target audience of readers seeing this work as a poor reflection on them.Get more detail about Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady.
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