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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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Text | Request in advance | PN4874.B345 A3 1993 | Off-site |
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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