- 700 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
An historical survey of the impact of individual First Ladies' impact on America and the American woman. A selection of each woman's own writings is given along with a commentary on her influence, and a biography of her life, and the narrative covers all the presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents Page
- Acknowledgments Page
- Introduction: The First Lady as Symbol and Institution Page
- Martha Washington
- Abigail Adams
- Dolley Madison
- Elizabeth Monroe
- Louisa Adams
- Anna Harrison
- Letitia Tyler
- Julia Tyler
- Sarah Polk
- Margaret Taylor
- Abigail Fillmore
- Jane Pierce
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Eliza Johnson
- Julia Grant
- Lucy Webb Hayes
- Lucretia Garfield
- Frances Folsom Cleveland
- Caroline Scott Harrison
- Ida Saxton McKinley
- Edith Kermit Roosevelt
- Helen Herron Taft
- Ellen Axson Wilson
- Edith Bolling Wilson
- Florence Kling Harding
- Grace Goodhue Coolidge
- Lou Henry Hoover
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Bess Truman
- Mamie Eisenhower
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Patricia Nixon
- Betty Ford
- Rosalynn Carter
- Nancy Reagan
- Barbara Bush
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Appendix A: The Siena College First Lady Polls, 1982, 1993
- Appendix B: Presidents and First Ladies, 1789—1994
- Contributors
- Portrait Credits
- Index