Barbara Bush: A Biography By Pamela Kilian
Barbara Bush: A Biography (First Edition Hardcover Copy)
An Unvarnished, Insightful Portrait of One of America's Most Influential First Ladies
An Unvarnished, Insightful Portrait of One of America's Most Influential First Ladies
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Barbara Bush: A Biography
- Author: Pamela Kilian
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
- Publication Date: 1992
- ISBN-10: 0312076495
- ISBN-13: 9780312076498
- Edition Details: Stated First Edition, First Printing. Standard hardcover release with original unclipped dust jacket.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium cloth-backed boards with crisp silver gilt-stamped lettering across the spine, complete with structurally sound endpapers.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 244 pages. Enhanced with an extensive bibliography of White House memoirs, political timelines of the Bush administration, and central gloss photographic plate sections.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Cloth Boards: The cloth and paper boards sit in exceptional condition, remaining flat, square, and highly structurally sound. The corners show only microscopic storage friction, and the spine ends are crisp. The spine itself remains completely unbroken, rigid, and undamaged.
- Interior: The text block is robustly bound, perfectly clean, and tight. The internal pages and photographic reference plates are completely clean, crisp, and intact. Entirely free of standard user highlighting, ink underlining, dealer pencil marks, or dog-ears.
- Provenance: An exemplary, well-maintained collectible copy showing no evidence of remainder marks, institutional library stamps, or previous owner nameplates.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition Details: The original vintage 1992 dust jacket exhibits vibrant graphics and strong paper structural integrity. It shows very limited, superficial signs of handling and slight edge wear along the outer extremities. It features no significant tears, fading, or open chips, and comes protected in a clear, archival Cellophane cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1992 while she was serving as the active First Lady of the United States, Barbara Bush: A Biography offers a fascinating, unvarnished look behind the carefully cultivated "Silver Fox" matriarchal persona. Veteran journalist Pamela Kilian pulls back the curtain on the complex woman navigating the highest echelons of global political power. Moving past standard White House public relations, the biography explores Mrs. Bush's sharper, hidden dimensions, including her fierce penchant for skewering political critics of her husband, George H.W. Bush. The narrative covers her personal philosophies on life, her private eccentricities, and her intricate relationships within the sprawling Bush family dynasty. It stands as a vital historical snapshot of an American political era, written and published at the absolute peak of the subject's cultural influence.
Author Profile: Pamela Kilian
Pamela Kilian (1943–2006) was a highly respected American journalist and author who spent decades reporting from Washington, D.C. A veteran writer for the Winston-Salem Journal and various prominent news syndicates, she specialized in tracking White House politics and congressional affairs. Known for her incisive investigative style and objective narrative pace, Kilian penned multiple well-received political profiles. Her work is widely praised for its ability to cut through political spin and capture the genuine human elements of Washington's most powerful figures.
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