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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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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Table of 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 Dentt
- 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 (1993-2017)
- The ever-changing role of first lady.