first ladies

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first ladies

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.

Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1912-

1998
Presents a biography of the wife of the thirty-sixth president of the United States, a major source of support for her family and an energetic First Lady who was dedicated to Operation Head Start and the beautification of the nation.

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.

Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 1896-1979

2000
A biography of the wife of the thirty-fourth president of the United States, an excellent White House hostess and a popular First Lady who did not involve herself in politics.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

2003
A biography of former First Lady Hillary Clinton, from her "perfect" childhood and college years through her political life in Arkansas and Washington, D.C. to her election as senator from New York.

Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1864-1947

1998
Presents a biography of the woman whose husband served as both twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States.

Barbara Bush

1991
A biography of the first lady chronicling her childhood, marriage, travels, and crusade to fight the problems of illiteracy, poverty, and AIDS.

Barbara Pierce Bush, 1925-

1999
A biography of the down-to-earth wife of the forty-first president, describing her childhood, marriage, family life, political activities, and volunteer work for such causes as literacy and AIDS.

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