Please join us in welcoming author Lisa McCubbin for discussions on her new book
Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library ~ Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 @ 7:00 PM
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum ~ Grand Rapids, Michigan
Thursday, September 13, 2018 @ 7:00 PM ~ Online RSVP Link
Join Lisa McCubbin, award-winning journalist and the author of numerous New York Times bestselling titles, as she discusses her newly released book on Betty Ford. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor and Trailblazer is based on intimate in-depth interviews with family, friends, and colleagues of Mrs. Ford. McCubbin reveals a fiercely independent woman who had a lively sense of humor, unwavering faith, and an indomitable spirit — the true story behind one of the most admired and influential women of our time.
Reservations required for Grand Rapids only: Reserve your space through our Online RSVP Link, by calling 616-254-0384 or emailing ford_events@nara.gov. (Reservations are not required for the Ann Arbor presentation). Book sales and signing following each presentation.
About the Author
Lisa McCubbin is an award-winning journalist and the author of four New York Times bestselling books. Coming September 2018, is BETTY FORD: First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer, the landmark biography of one of the most admired and influential women of our time.
A graduate of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Ms. McCubbin has been a television news anchor and reporter, hosted her own radio talk show, and spent six years in the Middle East as a freelance journalist in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar.
In 2009, Gerald Blaine—a longtime family friend—asked if she would help him write a book about his time in the Secret Service. Their collaboration, The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (2010) became a New York Times bestseller and was the basis for the Emmy-nominated Discovery channel documentary, The Kennedy Detail.
While writing The Kennedy Detail, Ms. McCubbin met Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who is best known for leaping onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine as shots were fired in Dallas in 1963. Hill had retired from the U.S. Secret Service in 1975 as Assistant Director responsible for all protective forces and had vowed he “would never write a book.” Convinced by Ms. McCubbin that his stories were history, Hill finally acquiesced and together the two subsequently penned three memoirs regaling his remarkable career. Mrs. Kennedy and Me became a #1 New York Times bestseller, followed by Five Days in November and Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. In 2017, Director Michael Bay’s company Platinum Dunes acquired the film and television rights to Five Presidents. National Geographic is currently developing a television series called “The White House Detail” based on the book.
Since 2010, Lisa has been an invited guest at the annual conference of the Association of Former Agents of the U.S. Secret Service (AFAUSSS). Having met and interviewed hundreds of former and current agents, she has a deep admiration of and respect for the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect the Office of the President.
The proud mother of two sons and a daughter-in-law, Lisa McCubbin currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area.
