American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy
- ISBN-10
- 1000525600
- ISBN-13
- 9781000525601
- Series
- American First Ladies
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 700
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-12-13
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Lewis L. Gould
Description
An historical survey of the impact of individual First Ladies' impact on America and the American woman. A selection of each woman's own writings is given along with a commentary on her influence, and a biography of her life, and the narrative covers all the presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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