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Author Caroli, Betty Boyd.
Title First ladies : from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama / Betty Boyd Caroli.
Publication Info New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Edition Rev. and updated.


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Descript xxii, 437 p., [34] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition Rev. and updated.
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 (1993-2008) -- Turning points.
ISBN 9780195392852 (pbk.)
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Author Caroli, Betty Boyd.
Subject Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Descript xxii, 437 p., [34] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition Rev. and updated.
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 (1993-2008) -- Turning points.
ISBN 9780195392852 (pbk.)
Author Caroli, Betty Boyd.
Subject Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 4th Floor  E 176.2 C2  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Descript xxii, 437 p., [34] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 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 (1974-1993) -- A new generation in the White House (1993-2008) -- Turning points.
ISBN 9780195392852 (pbk.)

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