| Description |
xxii, 398 pages, 36 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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 (1974-1986) -- Presidential wives and the press -- "The women they married ... ": some conclusions. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 331-382. |
| Subject |
Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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| Indexed Term |
United States Presidents Wives, 1789-1988 - Biographies - Collections |
| ISBN |
0195037685: $19.95 |
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