An Affair with Beauty—The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy Author|Elisa Koopmans As the White House Chief

As the White House Chief of Staff Corky Ambush is more than used to his role as the behind the scenes scapegoat who helps clean up the messes for his billionaire crook father (aka the President of the United States) his former Playmate of the Year stepmother Twilight (aka the First Lady) his junkie older brother Nick clueless movie star brother Drake and Jeremy the detested baby brother and heir to the family empire

He lives in the Chicago area with his wife Christine and his sons Nicholas and Alex

But feeling called to a deeper mission creatively and spiritually she left corporate America in 2007

Writing in an elliptical style Wagenaar achieves that articulation of being that mysterious symbiosis of self and world which is at the very heart of poetry

Daniel Bachhuber a retired Montessori elementary teacher writes fiction nonfiction and poetry

An Affair with Beauty—The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy Author|Elisa Koopmans As the White House ChiefFame fortune and beautiful models Howard Chandler Christy had them all. Christy was the most famous American painter of the Jazz Age a time when an elite brotherhood of New York artists dominated the publishing world. Christy had eclipsed all of them with his "Christy Girl " an idealized woman who redefined beauty influenced fashion and inspired generations of women. The Magic of Youth is the first book in An Affair with Beauty The Mystique of Howard