{"product_id":"first-ladys-lady-with-the-fords-at-the-white-house-9780399122927","title":"First Lady's Lady: With the Fords at the White House","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is a book that truly brings the White House alive--an intimate and intensely human portrait of a Presidential family--and an enormously entertaining journal that could be written only by an insider like Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld  White House Press Secretary to Betty Ford. What happens to an average family when it moves into the White House  when the public clamors for every detail of its members private lives  when opportunists  political groupies  and journalists constantly intrude? Sheila Weidenfeld knows  firsthand  and now she recounts it in candid  compassionate detail. Here is an unposed picture of the family who added a human dimension to high-level politics at a time when the country wanted desperately to believe again in the decency and honor of its leaders. Here are the inner workings of the White House  the perquisites  put-downs  and power plays that go along with life at the summit of political power. Here is an insiders look at the upper-echelon caste system and its secret status indicators  at the roles women play in that system  at the competitive scramble for position that all too often crushes marriages and drives men and women to drink and beyond. And here  too  is the sometimes equivocal position of First Lady  both powerful and powerless  and often anything but \"First.\" Fascinating  revealing  and filled with anecdotes  First Ladys Lady records the trials of life at the political pinnacle and the tribulations and triumphs of being there at a critical time in Americas history. (from dust cover\/jacket inside flaps).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276405071925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0399122923","price":62.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780399122927.jpg?v=1780549967","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/first-ladys-lady-with-the-fords-at-the-white-house-9780399122927","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}