First ladies : the ever-changing role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump /
Betty Boyd Caroli's First Ladies observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop to substantive world figure. This is an expanded and updated fifth edition, covering all forty-three women from Martha Washington to Melania and Ivanka Trump and including the daughters, da...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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| Summary: | Betty Boyd Caroli's First Ladies observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop to substantive world figure. This is an expanded and updated fifth edition, covering all forty-three women from Martha Washington to Melania and Ivanka Trump and including the daughters, daughters-in-law and sisters of presidents who sometimes served as First Ladies. Caroli explores each woman's background, marriage and accomplishments and failures in office. First Ladies is a portrait of how each First Lady changed the role and how the role changed in response to American culture. These women left remarkably complete records, and their stories offer us a window through which to view not only this particular sorority of women, but also the role of American women in general. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 423 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190669133 0190669136 |