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Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xx, 508 pages, [20] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams written from 1762 to 1801 covering topics of revolution, independence, and nation building, along with those that reflect their love for one another.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on historical documents and interviews with the long-silent 'illegitimate' branch of the family, celebrity biographer William J. Mann paints a group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts' rise to power and prestige was driven by a series of intense personal contests that at times devolved into blood sport. Eleanor Roosevelt experienced this brutality firsthand, witnessing her uncle Theodore cruelly destroy her...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library--Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xli, 211 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The best advice First Lady Barbara Bush offered her family, staff, and close friends"--
As a mother, Barbara Bush made sure we all knew that your children must come first, and one of the most important things you can do is to read to them. As a friend and mentor, she showed that you had to be true to yourself. Even at the end of her life, she taught us how to die with grace. Her advice ranged from what to wear, what to say or not say, and how to...
86) Truman
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (260 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the unlikely rise of a gritty American original, Harry Truman. He was a farmer, a bankrupt businessman, an unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held America's highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared, but he would prove to be a surprise. Facing some of the biggest crises of the century, Truman would end the war with Germany, use the atomic bomb against Japan, confront...
87) Pursuit
Author
Series
Jessica Ford and Mark Ryan novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
After rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan meets with the First Lady, the VIP is killed in a car accident in which Jessica manages to survive. When she suspects the accident was something else and she becomes the next target. She and experienced FBI agent Mark Ryan team up to uncover the plot behind the First Lady's murder
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where impoverished...
90) Guarding Tess
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A delightful comedy about a cantankerous former First Lady and her reluctant bodyguard
93) First ladies
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
95) The first ladies
Author
Publisher
White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
93 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Brief biographies and portraits of wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxii, 437 p., [34] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bush's tenure, Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth look at Michelle Obama, one of the most charismatic and appealing First Ladies in recent history. Covering all forty-one women...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians for C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image. This book provides an up-close historical look at these fascinating women who survived the scrutiny of the White House, sometimes at great personal cost, while supporting their families and famous husbands-- and sometimes changing history.
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