First ladies /
As we move toward the year 2000, Americans continue to debate the job of First Lady. How much power does the position actually hold? How publicly should that power be wielded? First Ladies tells the story of this curious institution and the evolution of these women's role from ceremonial backdr...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1. Setting Precedents: The First Presidents' Wives (1789-1829); 2. Young Substitutes for First Ladies (1829-1869); 3. Three Exceptions: Sarah Childress Polk, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Julia Dent Grant; 4. The Limited Promise of the "New Woman" (1877-1901); 5. The Office of First Lady: A Twentieth Century Development; 6. The Paradoxical 1920S; 7. Breaking Precedents and Reaffirming Old Ones (1933-1961); 8. The Turbulent Sixties; 9. New Dimensions to the Job of First Lady (1974-1993); 10. A New Generation in the White House (1993- ); 11. Presidential Wives and the Press.
