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    First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
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    First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump

    Written by Betty Boyd Caroli

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

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    Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop to substantive world figure. This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observations of recent developments in First Lady history, including Melania Trump's reluctance to take on the mantle and former First Lady Hilary Clinton's recent run for president. Caroli here contributes a new preface and updated chapters.

    Covering all forty-five women from Martha Washington to Melania Trump and including the daughters, daughters-in-law, and sisters of presidents who served as First Ladies, Caroli explores each woman's background, marriage, and accomplishments and failures in office. This remarkable lot included Abigail Adams, whose "remember the ladies" became a twentieth-century feminist refrain; Jane Pierce, who prayed her husband would lose the election; Helen Taft, who insisted on living in the White House, although her husband would have preferred a judgeship; Eleanor Roosevelt, who epitomized the politically involved First Lady; and Pat Nixon, who perfected what some have called "the robot image."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 29, 2019
    ISBN9781684570317
    First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    Author

    Betty Boyd Caroli

    Betty Boyd Caroli is the author of Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President; First Ladies: Martha Washington to Michelle Obama; Inside the White House; and The Roosevelt Women. She has been a guest on Today, The O’Reilly Factor, Lehrer NewsHour, Al Jazeera, Booknotes with Brian Lamb, and many others. A graduate of Oberlin College, Caroli holds a master’s degree in Mass Communications from the Annenberg School of the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in American Civilization from New York University. She currently resides in New York City and Venice, Italy.

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      This was an incredibly interesting book. I find the First Ladies intriguing regardless of era or political affiliation. I can highly recommend this book to anyone interested in politics and/or the First Ladies.