The presidential companion : readings on the first ladies / edited by Robert P. Watson and Anthony J. Eksterowicz.
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2003], ©2003.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Martha Washington and the creation of the role of First Lady / Patricia Brady
- Political parties : first ladies and social events in the formation of the Federal government / Catherine Allgor
- Betty Ford transforms the role of First Lady / Mary Linehan
- True women : the roles and lives of antebellum presidential wives, Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce / Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker-Estrada
- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson : the protective steward / James S. McCallops
- Bess W. Truman : the reluctant First Lady / Raymond Frey
- Eleanor Roosevelt : an unlikely path to political activist / Susan Roth Breitzer
- Policy experts : congressional testimony and influence of first ladies / Colton C. Campbell and Sean E. McCluskie
- First ladies and U.S. foreign policy / Glenn Hastedt
- The evolution of the role and office of the First Lady : the movement toward integration with the White House Office / Anthony J. Eksterowicz and Kristen Paynter
- First ladies and policy making : crossing the public/private divide / Kay M. Knickrehm and Robin Teske
- Copresident or codependent? : the rise and rejection of presidential couples since World World II / Gil Troy
- Hillary's choices : the first ladyship of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the future of the office / Myra G. Gutin
- Sharing the bully pulpit : breast cancer and First Lady Betty Ford's leadership / MaryAnne Borrelli.