First ladies : from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama /
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Author / Creator: | Caroli, Betty Boyd. |
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Edition: | Rev. and updated ed. |
Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 437 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13538578 |
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); Photographs; 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 (1993-2008); 11. Turning Points.