TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caroli,Betty Boyd
TI  - First ladies: from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama 
SN  - 9780195392852 (acidfree paper)
AV  - E176.2 .C37 2010
U1  - 973.09/9 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford [England], New York, N.Y.
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Presidents' spouses
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
N1  - 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
ER  -