Would recommend: Yes

I borrowed this biography from the library after reading American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld, because it was one of the first books listed in the acknowledgments section. I enjoyed seeing the parallels between the novel and the biography, and I think Ronald Kessler did a nice job giving dimension to Laura and George W. Bush. I really liked reading about their lives before the two presidential terms. However, once Bush's presidency started, everything started to blur for me. The anecdotes didn't seem as tight or interrelated, and I got all the names mixed up. The last quarter of the book was much less interesting to me, even though it probably should have been the most relevant. Overall, I liked this book very much, and I'm glad I read it after I read Sittenfeld's novel, rather than the other way around.