By Jessica Schneider Jan 6, 2009, 17:27 GMT
Publishers aren’t that interested in her husband, but Laura Bush has been pushing her idea of a memoir for a while now.
The AP reports that Scribner will publish the First Lady’s memoir, detailing her time of while she was in the White House.
According to the article: “Despite eight years in the White House, Laura Bush is essentially unknown to her many admirers, who have speculated about her politics (rumors abound that she's more liberal than her husband), her marriage and a car accident when she was a teenager. A former librarian, Bush is also known as a devoted reader whose favorite authors include Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote and Toni Morrison.”
The article notes that the book’s publishing date will be 2010.
First Ladies have had much success when it came to selling their stories, as opposed to someone such as, say, George W. Bush—a Lame Duck President with such low approval ratings, that publishers have told him to wait.
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