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Author:

Krull, Kathleen, author.

Title:

A kids' guide to America's first ladies / Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Anna Divito.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

238 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Presidents' spouses--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Presidents' spouses--Political activity--United States--Juvenile literature.
First ladies.
Women--Biography.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

DiVito, Anna, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240) and index.

Contents:

Forty women who shaped America. 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.

Summary:

Examines America's first ladies and how they helped advance women's rights, political causes and other important progressive changes.

ISBN:

0062381075
9780062381071

OCLC:

(OCoLC)967385961

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