Home Front (Large Print)

Description for HOME FRONT by Patti Davis with Maureen Strange Foster: In this moving, frankly autobiographical novel, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan tells what it was like to grow up in the public eye during two turbulent decades, and what it means to belong to America's first family. Teenager Beth Canfield would like to meet a nice boy, lead a fulfilling private life, and love her parents, Robert and Harriet.  But she loathes her father's dinnertime political talk, and bursts into tears when be becomes governor of California.  By the time she's ready for college, Beth feels estranged from both her parents, whose goal is to live in the White House.  She demonstrates against the Vietnam War they support and shocks them by smoking marijuana.  As Beth tries to rescue her friend Greg, a scarred Vietnam vet, from his self-i9mposed exile, Governor Canfield makes a bid for the presidency.  And family tension mounts. Finally, Beth must make a choice:  between her very fragile sense of self and her sense of the woman she desires to become.