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On First Ladies, From Jackie To Michelle, With Kate Anderson Brower

KUAR | By Bobby Ampezzan
Published October 20, 2016 at 5:06 PM CDT
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Kate Anderson Brower

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LITTLE ROCK — Former White House reporter turned White House historian and author Kate Anderson Brower visited the capital city today as the latest Fred K. Darragh Jr. Distinguished Lecturer of the Central Arkansas Library System.

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Kate Anderson Brower

Brower visited KUAR-89.1 FM studios and gave Arkansas Public Media a preview in an interview with Arkansas Public Media managing editor Bobby Ampezzan

Brower is a former correspondent for Bloomberg News covering the White House tenure of President Barack Obama and his family. She’s a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Her first book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, was a New York Times bestseller, and she’s followed it up with a book this year called First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies.

First Women was the focus of her Darragh lecture.

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Bobby Ampezzan
Bobby Ampezzan is a native of Detroit who holds degrees from Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) and the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville). He's written for The Guardian newspaper and Oxford American magazine and was a longtime staff writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The best dimestore nugget he's lately discovered comes from James Altucher's Choose Yourself (actually, the Times' profile on Altucher, which quotes the book): "I lose at least 20 percent of my intelligence when I am resentful." Meanwhile, his faith in public radio and television stems from the unifying philosophy that not everything be serious, but curiosity should follow every thing, and that we be serious about curiosity.