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Power at play : a memoir of parties, politicians, and the presidents in my bedroom / Betty Beale.

Title
Power at play : a memoir of parties, politicians, and the presidents in my bedroom / Betty Beale.
Author
Beale, Betty.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, ©1993.

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Description
x, 355 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Beale has dined, danced, and dished with presidents, kings, cabinet members, congressional leaders, and ambassadors for almost half a century as the most widely-read Washington society columnist in history. Her life story is delightful, inspiring, and entertaining.
Subject
  • Beale, Betty
  • Beale, Betty
  • Since 1951
  • Women journalists > Washington (D.C.) > Biography
  • Celebrities > Washington (D.C.) > Biography
  • Femmes journalistes > Washington (D.C.) > Biographies
  • Célébrités > Washington (D.C.) > Biographies
  • Celebrities
  • Manners and customs
  • Women journalists
  • Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > 1951-
  • Washington (D.C.) > Mœurs et coutumes > 1951-
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Biography
  • 1951-
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Hello, I'm Betty Beale: An Introduction -- 2. Off on the Right Foot: My Washington Roots -- 3. Capital Quickstep: The Roosevelt-Truman Years -- 4. Grand March: Of Ike and Mamie -- 5. Camelot Conga-Line: The Kennedy Years -- 6. Texas Two-Step: LBJ and Lady Bird's Era -- 7. Pas de Deux: Madly for Adlai -- 8. Rock and Roll: And Riots and Romances -- 9. A Troubled Tango: The Nixons -- 10. Belles of the Ball: Wonderful Women and a Few Good Men -- 11. Foxtrot to Normalcy: The Ford Years -- 12. Clogging to the Classics: The Carter Years -- 13. Royal Rigadoon: Tete-a-tetes with Kings and Things -- 14. Golden Gavotte: The Reagan Era -- 15. The Place-Card Polka: When Presidents Come to Dinner -- Epilogue: Last Waltz: The End of an Era?
ISBN
  • 0895265036
  • 9780895265036
LCCN
92041187
OCLC
27267410
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library