First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
- ISBN-10
- 0190669136
- ISBN-13
- 9780190669133
- Series
- First Ladies
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 423
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Betty Boyd Caroli
Description
"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.
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