May Book Club - First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Anderson Brower

The May Book Club will meet a week later than usual on June 1, 2016 at 7:00 pm.The book will be First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Anderson Brower. Jim and Jo-Ann Prater will host and provide beverages. If you wish, bring snacks to 2000 Malvern.

One of the most underestimated—and challenging—positions in the world, the First Lady of the United States must be many things: an inspiring leader with a forward-thinking agenda of her own; a savvy politician, skilled at navigating the treacherous rapids of Washington; a wife and mother operating under constant scrutiny; and an able CEO responsible for the smooth operation of countless services and special events at the White House. Now, as she did in her smash #1 bestseller The Residence, former White House correspondent Kate Andersen Brower draws on a wide array of untapped, candid sources—from residence staff and social secretaries to friends and political advisers—to tell the stories of the ten remarkable women who have defined that role since 1960.