GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME LIZ CARPENTER 1987 1ST HB!

"LIZ CARPENTER"

"GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME"

First Edition with full number line!

1987 Copyright by Liz Carpenter

Published by Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 0-671-61157-7

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 87-4802

The jacket is not price clipped $17.95

(from inside the jacket)

"Today I am sixty-five years old," Liz Carpenter begins her book. "That seems a lot to my grandchildren. The younger is six, and he looks at my white hair and wrinkles, and thinks 'old.' Maybe everyone does. But for me, it seems like nothing at all. I am still the same person I have always been, the child wading in Salado Creek, writing school songs in Austin, attending the University of Texas, going to Washington as a cub reporter, working in the White House, coming home to lead a new kind of life as a  widow." "Life has always led me to where things are happening, where people were exhilarating, where actions and laughter came quickly." Liz Carpenter - a veteran Washington insider and one of journalism's truly trendsetting heroines - has crowded enough living into one life for half a dozen women. And she still has a long way to go. As a vice-presidential aide to Lyndon Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird, she played a flamboyant part in Washington's social and political life for more than three decades. She is one of the funniest and best-known women in America, and her speeches and writing have been favorites nationwide for years. While this is a wonderfully anecdotal story of life at the top, it is more than that. Building her life stages around the five houses she lived in, from one in which she was born, and including the most prestigious of all, the White House, Liz ends her journey at the present Texas home, just outside Austin, where she was the first woman to be vice-president of the student body at the University of Texas. What Liz Carpenter has written is a reflectionon on the life experiences of a woman, albeit an extraordianry woman, from youth and career, marriage and motherhood, widowhood, and the joys and adventures of a happy middle age. Itis bright and brash, full of fun but bittersweet. It is an offer of friendship to her readers that is both witty (and gritty) and wise. Liz says she decided never to say no to an invitation (You never know) even though her children gave her an all-snail brithday party a year or so ago as part of their "Slow Down, Mom" Campaign. Getting Better All The Time offer sage advice and practical tips, but most of all, it sets an old-fashioned, Texas-style heck of an example to us all, as the author opens her heart to the reader, lends a friendly hand and, when neccessary, adds a gentle shove....."

304 pages

Book measures 9 1/2" tall by 6 1/4" wide by 1" thick

This is a hard cover book with the dust jacket. The book is in excellent condition, with very minor edge wear. The pages and binding are tight and secure, pages are clean and crisp. The jacket is also in very good to excellent condition with very minor edge wear or shelf wear. Overall the book and jacket are in excellent condition.

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