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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 11
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- It wasn't the first time a member of the Bush family had turned
- the tables on a journalist, but senior writer Margaret Carlson was
- nonetheless a bit startled when Barbara Bush opened the interview
- by quizzing Carlson about the inner workings of TIME. "She was
- genuinely curious about the magazine," reports Carlson, who visited
- Mrs. Bush while she was still packing boxes at the
- vice-presidential mansion on Embassy Row.
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- Once the interview was under way, however, the questions
- Carlson had worked out with White House correspondent Michael Duffy
- drew surprisingly candid answers from the new First Lady. Carlson
- predicts that Mrs. Bush will be neither a demi-Cabinet member like
- Rosalynn Carter nor a backstage impresario like Nancy Reagan. "Mrs.
- Bush is so sure of herself, she has no need to prove anything,"
- says Carlson. "She is as comfortable discussing the merits of one
- campaign ad over another as she is pouring tea."
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- Carlson found her way to Washington under the inspiration of
- consumer advocate Ralph Nader. She wrote a book called How to Get
- Your Car Repaired Without Getting Gypped. The best-selling
- paperback financed law school and eventually led Carlson to
- reporting and editing stints at the Washington Weekly, Esquire
- magazine and the New Republic. Joining TIME last year, Carlson
- started right off writing about the 1988 campaign, including
- stories on the presidential conventions. She had, she recalls, no
- trouble trading law for the fourth estate. "A lawyer works on cases
- that won't be settled for years," says Carlson. "TIME has a
- deadline every week."
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- 1968. Bobby Kennedy dead, Martin Luther King Jr. dead. Apollo
- 8, the Tet offensive, flower power. Drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll.
- Gone, perhaps, but never forgotten, that turbulent, mind-blowing
- time continues to reverberate in the national consciousness. TIME
- profiles a pivotal moment in history with the publication of 1968:
- The Year That Shaped a Generation. Full of the pictures that
- indelibly marked a nation, this special collector's book recaptures
- a year when innocence died and the world turned upside down.