posted on October 8, 2007 11:51:19 PM new
In the tradition of other lighter than lightweights like Paris and Britanny, Jenna writes a book hoping to appear as a real human. The drunken party girl REALLY cares....
I heard her interviewed on NPR and she got a little huffy when they wanted to talk more about daddy than her book but her voice never lost that nauseating softer than melted butter tone. I think a little more schooling is in order for this teacher...the word "didn't" has one syllable NOT two as she pronounced it.
Jenna Bush embarks on book 'Journey'
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY
Jenna Bush, in a rare interview, says her forthcoming book for teens — about a 17-year-old single mother in Panama who is living with HIV — will end with a "call to action."
HarperCollins announces today that it's publishing Bush's Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope this fall. It will be illustrated with photographs by Mia Baxter, a former classmate of Bush's at the University of Texas.
The president's daughter, 25, says the book is not political. It's aimed at "getting kids thinking and involved," Bush said Monday by phone from Panama, where she has worked since September as an unpaid intern for UNICEF.
Bush, a former public school teacher in Washington, D.C., says: "I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky."
But, Bush says, "there's so much they can do" to deal with issues of "exclusion" — from research on HIV discrimination to "inviting new kids to sit with them in the cafeteria."
The book grew out of her UNICEF job to "put a face on statistics" and document the lives of children in Central and South America who live in extreme poverty.
Jenna and her sister, Barbara (who works at a New York museum), have tried to avoid publicity and have been protected by the White House. But, she says, "I'm willing to give up some of my anonymity" to promote the book and "start a dialogue with kids."
A book tour is planned in schools, libraries and bookstores. "This is not about me," she adds, "but the kids I met here."
The Bush twins have been fodder for tabloids and gossip columnists for their partying and underage drinking. Jenna Bush, who campaigned for her father in 2004, says she doesn't worry about her media image: "I care what people who know me think of me. I think they would disagree (with her image). I like to go to bed early."
Kate Jackson, editor of HarperCollins Children's Books, says she was impressed by Bush's "intellect, drive and passion." A first printing of about 500,000 copies is expected.
Bush says she will donate her earnings to UNICEF. She says she "very, very modestly" hopes her book will have some of the influence of two books about girls caught up in the Holocaust: Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars and Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank."""
(oh, Jenna, you dreamer!)
""Historian Carl Sferrezza Anthony says 23 presidential children are authors, most of them after their fathers left office. Patti Davis' 1986 novel, Homefront, caused a stir because of characters who resembled her father, Ronald Reagan, and mother, Nancy Reagan.
posted on October 10, 2007 01:44:37 PM new
It's just like Demomorons like Mingopig to complain. First they complain the no one will help, then when they do help, the Demomorons still complain.
Looks like the flip floppers are coming out of the woodwork.
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If it's called common sense, why do so few Demomorons have it?
posted on October 10, 2007 07:51:41 PM new
I read the user reviews last week. They were generally not supportive of her writing skills or the help they gave AIDS victims. Of course, riding her Dad's coattails to get published (although all the profits are going to AIDS), brings her father's (lack of) support of AIDS research and relief into review.
"She says she "very, very modestly" hopes her book will have some of the influence of two books about girls caught up in the Holocaust: Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars and Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank."
It's a shame that the number of people who could write a book that might reasonably have a glimmer of a chance to approach the impact of Ann Frank's book do not have the money and power that Jenna has at her disposal to make that feat possible.
The publication of this book only a few months after her happy times in Georgetown appears to be an effort to rehabilitate Jenna's image. Hopefully she won't get a big head and run for office.
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