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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
A kids' guide to America's first ladies
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Physical Description
238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
Examines America's first ladies and how they helped advance women's rights, political causes and other important progressive changes.
Contents
- Must I always be first? Martha Washington
- Do NOT forget the ladies! Abigail Adams
- Presidents who (technically) had no first ladies and why
- Bubbly, bold, brave. Dolley Madison
- Illness, heroic journeys, and Texas. Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Anna Harrison, and two very different Tylers
- Letitia Tyler and Julia Tyler
- Ambition versus invisibility. Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce
- Civil War breaks out. Mary Lincoln
- And now the "New Woman Era". Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes and Lucretia Garfield
- The modern woman emerges. Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, and Helen Taft
- The artist and the first woman prez. Ellen Wilson and Edith Wilson
- Flying first ladies. Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, and Lou Hoover
- First lady of the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Pink and pretty. Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower
- One thousand days
- and beyond. Jacqueline Kennedy
- A millionaire, a Goodwill ambassador, and one who made a difference. Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford
- The steel magnolia, the iron butterfly and the enforcer. Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush
- Developing a thick skin. Hillary Clinton
- The bookworm. Laura Bush
- Serious role model. Michelle Obama
- Glamour to spare. Melania Trump
- Forty women who shaped America.