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First ladies
- Title
- First ladies / Betty Boyd Caroli.
- Author
- Caroli, Betty Boyd.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E176.2 .C37 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxii, 430 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- Studies the expanding role of the First Lady, discusses how that role has changed throughout history, and analyzes how thirty-eight First Ladies have dealt with the job.
- Series Statement
- Oxford paperbacks
- Uniform Title
- Oxford paperbacks (Unnumbered)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-414) and index.
- 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- ) -- Presidential wives and the press -- "The women they married-- ": some conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0195092287
- 9780195092288
- 0195099443
- 9780195099447
- LCCN
- 94042356
- OCLC
- ocm31433847
- 31433847
- SCSB-2070442
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library