Title:
First ladies : the ever-changing role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump / Betty Boyd Caroli.
ISBN:
9780190669133
Personal Author:
Edition:
Fifth edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Physical Description:
xx, 423 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 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 Dentt -- 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 (1993-2017) -- The ever-changing role of first lady.
Summary:
"Betty Boyd Caroli's First Ladies observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop to substantive world figure ... This [is a] expanded and updated fifth edition ... covering all forty-three women from Martha Washington to Melania and Ivanka Trump and including the daughters, daughters-in-law, and sisters of presidents who sometimes served as First Ladies. Caroli explores each woman's background, marriage, and accomplishments and failures in office. First Ladies is a portrait of how each First Lady changed the role and how the role changed in response to American culture. These women left remarkably complete records, and their stories offer us a window through which to view not only this particular sorority of women, but also the role of American women in general."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Term:
Genre:
Audience:
1580L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1084633008
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
