LIFE ICONS Betty White: The Illustrated Biography

Nothing in the world of American show business or celebrity today is more fashionable than to love Betty White. Be it her latest turn on Saturday Night Live or her latest hysterical ad or her latest appearance on Craig Fergusons Late Late Show or last weeks episode of Hot in Cleveland, any and everything Betty does has us gathering at the watercooler on Monday morning Did you see? But theres so much more to Betty White than the vibrant, funny, white-haired 90-year-old todays audience knows, and in the second commemorative book in LIFEs new ICONS series after the volume on Clint Eastwood, our editors recount-and celebrate-the whole Betty White. Born in Illinois and raised in California, the daughter of a traveling salesman and a homemaker, she has been on the job not for a few years but for seven decades.