First ladies : from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama /
Caroli, Betty Boyd.
First ladies : from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama / Betty Boyd Caroli. - Rev. and updated ed. - Oxford [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxii, 437 p., [34] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-409) and index.
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 (1993-2008) -- Turning points.
9780195392852 (acidfree paper) 019539285X (acid-free paper)
2010014673
Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
E176.2 / .C37 2010
973.09/9
First ladies : from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama / Betty Boyd Caroli. - Rev. and updated ed. - Oxford [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxii, 437 p., [34] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-409) and index.
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 (1993-2008) -- Turning points.
9780195392852 (acidfree paper) 019539285X (acid-free paper)
2010014673
Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
E176.2 / .C37 2010
973.09/9