Encyclopedia of first ladies

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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1872-1961

1998
Presents a biography of the wife of the twenty-eighth president of the United States, a woman who helped her husband manage the affairs of his office after he suffered a stroke.

Bess Wallace Truman, 1885-1982

1998
Presents a biography of the wife of the thirty-third president of the United States, a woman who preferred the privacy of family life to the public role of First Lady.

Helen Herron Taft, 1861-1943

2000
A biography of the wife of the twenty-seventh president of the United States, an ambitious woman who was responsible for planting the famous cherry trees around the Tidal Basin.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962

1999
A biography of the wife of the thirty-second president, who was the first to have a public life and career of her own and who was devoted to helping others and working for peace.

Sarah Childress Polk, 1803-1891

1998
A biography of the First Lady who served as personal secretary to her husband, the eleventh president of the United States, and who was thereby involved in the daily workings of his administration.

Jane Means Appleton Pierce

1998
A biography of the wife of the fourteenth president of the United States, who never wanted her husband to be in politics and who never recovered from her grief over the deaths of all three of her children.

Patricia Ryan Nixon, 1912-1993

1998
A biography of an intensely private person remembered for many achievements as First Lady and admired for loyalty to her husband, the thirty-seventh president of the United States.

Julia Dent Grant, 1826-1902

1998
A biography of the woman who spent much of her married life as an "army wife" before becoming First Lady when her husband served as eighteenth president of the United States.

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, 1832-1918

1998
A biography of the wife of the twentieth president of the United States, who became widely admired for her intelligence and strong convictions.

Elizabeth Bloomer Ford, 1918-

2000
A biography of the wife of the thirty-eighth president of the United States, a relaxed, friendly White House hostess who supported women's rights and helped raise breast cancer awareness by talking openly about her own surgery.

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