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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

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