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- English
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About this book
This volume presents thirty-nine interpretive biographical essays on all first ladies, from Martha Washington to America's newest First Lady, Laura Bush. This new edition contains updated material on all the living First Ladies and updated bibliographies for each entry, as well as a portrait of the newest First Lady.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The First Lady as Symbol and Institution
- Contributors
- 1 Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
- 2 Abigail Smith Adams
- 3 Dolley Payne Todd Madison
- 4 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
- 5 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
- 6 Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
- 7 Letitia Christian Tyler
- 8 Julia Gardiner Tyler
- 9 Sarah Childress Polk
- 10 Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
- 11 Abigail Powers Fillmore
- 12 Jane Means Appleton Pierce
- 13 Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
- 14 Eliza McCardle Johnson
- 15 Julia Dent Grant
- 16 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
- 17 Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
- 18 Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland
- 19 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison
- 20 Ida Saxton McKinley
- 21 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
- 22 Helen Herron Taft
- 23 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
- 24 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
- 25 Florence Mabel Kling Harding
- 26 Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
- 27 Lou Henry Hoover
- 28 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
- 29 Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Wallace Truman
- 30 Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower
- 31 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- 32 Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson
- 33 Thelma Catherine (Patricia) Ryan Nixon
- 34 Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Bloomer Ford
- 35 Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
- 36 Nancy (Anne Frances Robbins Davis) Reagan
- 37 Barbara Pierce Bush 4Myra Gutin
- 38 Hillary Rodham Clinton
- 39 Laura Melch Bush
- Appendix A: The Siena College First Lady Polls, 1982, 1993
- Index
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