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The presidential companion : readings on the first ladies / edited by Robert P. Watson and Anthony J. Eksterowicz.
LIBRA E176.2 .P84 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents' spouses--United States.
- Presidents' spouses.
- History.
- United States.
- Presidents' spouses--United States--History.
- Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Martha Washington and the creation of the role of First Lady / Patricia Brady
- Political parties : first ladies and social events in the formation of the Federal government / Catherine Allgor
- Betty Ford transforms the role of First Lady / Mary Linehan
- True women : the roles and lives of antebellum presidential wives, Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce / Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker-Estrada
- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson : the protective steward / James S. McCallops
- Bess W. Truman : the reluctant First Lady / Raymond Frey
- Eleanor Roosevelt : an unlikely path to political activist / Susan Roth Breitzer
- Policy experts : congressional testimony and influence of first ladies / Colton C. Campbell and Sean E. McCluskie
- First ladies and U.S. foreign policy / Glenn Hastedt
- The evolution of the role and office of the First Lady : the movement toward integration with the White House Office / Anthony J. Eksterowicz and Kristen Paynter
- First ladies and policy making : crossing the public/private divide / Kay M. Knickrehm and Robin Teske
- Copresident or codependent? : the rise and rejection of presidential couples since World World II / Gil Troy
- Hillary's choices : the first ladyship of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the future of the office / Myra G. Gutin
- Sharing the bully pulpit : breast cancer and First Lady Betty Ford's leadership / MaryAnne Borrelli.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-331) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1570034613
- OCLC:
- 50018722
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