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Former First Lady, BARBARA BUSH

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Barbara Bush married George Bush at age 19 during World War Two.
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Former First Lady, BARBARA BUSH. She's written her memoir, "Barbara Bush" (Charles Scribner's Sons). A story of a "life of privilege" she writes. The book chronicles her early life, her marriage to George Bush during World War Two at the age of 19, and the political path that took them to the White House. BARBARA BUSH also writes about a depression she fell into in the mid-1970s in which she wept each night in the arms of her husband, and had thoughts about crashing her car into a tree or oncoming auto. The depression finally lifted on its own. The memoir is based on her diaries. One reviewer writes that BUSH "casts herself mostly as enthralled bystander at her husband's ascent from local Texas politics to the White House." (CONTINUES INTO SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

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