First Ladies
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195092287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nice book My wife wanted this book, and is enjoying it but she wish it would have been a Hardback, maybe I was not listening very well that day.. A concise cultural history of our First Ladies Betty Boyd Caroli has written a concise cultural history of our First Ladies. But her observations on how each era shaped the next was only mildly insigthful if not predictable hindsight.I was disappointed there was less information about our early first ladies than there was on our more recent ones. Either some of our first ladies did not leave complete records or Coroli simply felt the more recent ones deserved more attention.Overall, First Ladies is 80% hard research and 20% gossip of the
Libs., BloomingtonCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. A ranking of the First Ladies by historians is included. Cridland, Indiana Univ. From Library Journal Being First Lady is probably the hardest unpaid job in the United States. Caroli takes a look at each of them and their effect on the job, and also examines the ways the role of First Lady has changed over the years as American society and public expectations have changed. Nancy C. . The thirty-six First Ladies (some of them daughters or other relatives) have been a highly varied group. Three have married an incumbent President; three have died in office. Though not intended to be an in-depth study of either the First Ladies or the institution, this is an interesting and thoughtful overview that will appeal to a variety of readers
Covering all thirty-nine women from Martha Washington to our current First Lady and including the daughters, daughters-in-law, and sisters of presidents who sometimes served as First Ladies, Betty Boyd Caroli explores the background, marriage, and accomplishments and failures in office of each woman. 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 backdrop to substantive world figure. This remarkably diverse lot included Abigail Adams, whose "remember the ladies" became a twentieth-century feminist refrain; Edith Wilson, who alone controlled access to the President when he suffered a stroke; Jane Pierce, who prayed her husband would lose the election; Helen Taft, who insisted on living in the White House, although
Betty Boyd Caroli holds a Ph.D. She is the author of Inside the White House and co-author of Today's Immigrants: Their Stories.. in American Civilization from New York University