Steel plant on Chicago's South Side where her father, a Croatian immigrant, was a superintendent; also worked briefly in a beauty parlor operated by her mother
Met husband James Carville in 1991 but suspended their relationship while she was Deputy Campaign Director of George H
W
Bush's 1992 Presidential reelection bid and he ran Bill Clinton's successful effort
Married Carville on Thanksgiving Day 1993, then collaborated with him on the best-seller All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (1994)
Entered the arena of book publishing in 2006 as editor-in-chief of Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster that specialized in works by conservative authors
Wrote Letters to My Daughter (2007), a book of lessons she learned from her life experiences and her mother's
Began serving as a political contributor and Republican strategist for CNN in 2009