Although close to her sisters and brother, Wallace is sure they’ve never voted for anyone for whom she has worked.Īt Cal, where she obtained a degree in mass communication, she was apolitical. That the four children graduated from Cal is her parents’ “proudest family statistic,” she says. The oldest of four children, Nicolle Devenish grew up in bucolic Orinda, with a father who thinks he’s “a right-wing nut” but whom she calls “a confused Libertarian” a mother who’s either a Republican or an independent, depending on whether you ask her or Nicolle and three more liberal sibs. President Bush “infused in everybody a sense of temporary stewardship,” she said. Although she acknowledges, “We certainly screwed things up at times,” Wallace said their intent always was to do right for the country. “I worked there after 9/11, such an extraordinary time,” she said. She has only praise for the former president, calling W a man “of tremendous character and grace.” One could almost forget Mission Accomplished or Katrina. Her outlook seems unchanged from her White House years. “I was at the right place at the right time.” Wallace makes light of her political accomplishments, attributing them to a combination of hard work and good fortune. The sequel, It’s Classified, will be published this month. president with a Palin-esque VP who clicks around on orange heels and wears clothes too short, low, and tight. Such as “Blue states have all the culture, but red states, at night, have the Milky Way.” And “Presidents have dogs to make them feel normal.” She wove such tidbits into Eighteen Acres, a novel published last year about a Hillary Clinton–type U.S. Wallace’s critics, too, are bipartisan, including right-wingers who blame her for all that went wrong with Sarah Palin’s run for vice president.Īlthough Wallace never took notes while in the White House or on the campaign trail, she stored insights. The 1994 Berkeley grad, now a novelist and TV pundit, is as likely to have a drink with conservative Sean Hannity of Fox News as with MSNBC’s liberal Rachel Maddow. In a political landscape splashed in red and blue, Wallace scans for purple. The stunning 37-year-old with a girl-next-door face framed by parentheses of blond hair is a graceful feminist with empathy for those on the other side. Bush’s communications director and a top campaign advisor to Senator John McCain, doesn’t fit the public perception of a Republican operative. The post-political career of a White House spin doctor
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