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First ladies : from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama / Betty Boyd Caroli.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.Edition: Rev. and updated edDescription: xxii, 437 p., [34] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780195392852 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.099 22
Contents:
Setting precedents : the first Presidents' wives (1789-1829) -- Young substitutes for First Ladies (1829-1869) -- Three exceptions : Sarah Childress Polk, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Julia Dent Grant -- The limited promise of the " New Woman" (1877-1901) -- The Office of First Lady : a twentieth-century development -- The paradoxical 1920s -- Breaking precedents and reaffirming old ones (1933-1961) -- The turbulent Sixties -- New dimensions to the job of First Lady (1974-1993) -- A new generation in the White House (1993-2008) -- Turning points.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-409) and index.

Setting precedents : the first Presidents' wives (1789-1829) -- Young substitutes for First Ladies (1829-1869) -- Three exceptions : Sarah Childress Polk, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Julia Dent Grant -- The limited promise of the " New Woman" (1877-1901) -- The Office of First Lady : a twentieth-century development -- The paradoxical 1920s -- Breaking precedents and reaffirming old ones (1933-1961) -- The turbulent Sixties -- New dimensions to the job of First Lady (1974-1993) -- A new generation in the White House (1993-2008) -- Turning points.

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