Author: Kathleen PRINDIVILLE
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Susan Swain
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1610395662
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians C-SPAN’s yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all forty-five first ladies—their lives, ambitions, and unique partnerships with their presidential spouses. Susan Swain and the C-SPAN team elicit the details that made these women who they were: how Martha Washington intentionally set the standards followed by first ladies for the next century; how Edith Wilson was complicit in the cover-up when President Wilson became incapacitated after a stroke; and how Mamie Eisenhower used the new medium of television to reinforce her, and her husband’s, positive public images. This book provides an up-close historical look at these fascinating women who survived the scrutiny of the White House, sometimes at great personal cost, while supporting their families and famous husbands—and sometimes changing history. Complete with illustrations and essential biographical details, it is an illuminating, entertaining, and ultimately inspiring read.

Author: Mary Ormsbee WHITTON
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Sol Barzman
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Intimate biographical portraits of the Presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Pat Nixon.

Author: Salem Press
Publisher: Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619259423
Category : First ladies -- United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Provides a biographical essay on each of the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, including family members who served as First Lady for bachelor or widowed Presidents, and includes overviews of the widely varied roles they have played.

Author: Margaret Truman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 030742054X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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“Fascinating . . . First Ladies is a wonderfully generous look at the women who, often against their wishes, took on what Truman calls ‘the world's second toughest job.’”—The Christian Science Monitor Whether they envision their role as protector, partner, advisor, or scold, First Ladies find themselves in a job that is impossible to define, and just as difficult to perform. Now Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry Truman and an acclaimed novelist and biographer in her own right, explores the fascinating position of First Lady throughout history and up to the present day. With her unique perspective as the daughter of a First Lady, Ms. Truman reveals the truth behind some of the most misunderstood and forgotten First Ladies of our history, as well as the most famous and beloved. In recounting the charm and courage of Dolley Madison, the brazen ambition of Florence Harding, the calm, good sense of Grace Coolidge, the genius of Eleanor Roosevelt, the mysterious femininity of Jackie Kennedy, and the fierce protectiveness of Nancy Reagan, among others, Margaret Truman has assembled an honest yet affectionate portrait of our nation’s First Ladies—one that freely acknowledges their virtues and their flaws.

Author: Margaret Brown Klapthor
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Biographies and portraits of forty-one wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington through Nancy Reagan.

Author: Robert P. Watson
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555879488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Traces the development of the First Lady's role from obscurity into an influential force in politics, complete with office, staff and budgetary resources to rival those of key presidential advisors. The author also explores the paradoxes surrounding activism in the office.

Author: Robert P. Watson
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN: 9781626371620
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Robert P. Watson¿s groundbreaking study on the presidents¿ wives proved that the first lady can be an influential force in presidential politics and is a subject worthy of scholarly attention. Now, this fully revised second edition incorporates the first ladyships of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama in each chapter. The new edition also includes a decade-and-a-half of new research on public opinion, the growth and political development of the East Wing, and the issue of first lady character.