First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women - Softcover

Swain, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610397177 ISBN 13: 9781610397179

Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2016

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A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians

C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all forty-five first ladies -- their lives, ambitions, and unique partnerships with their presidential spouses. Susan Swain and the C-SPAN team elicit the details that made these women who they were: how Martha Washington intentionally set the standards followed by first ladies for the next century; how Edith Wilson was complicit in the cover-up when President Wilson became incapacitated after a stroke; and how Mamie Eisenhower used the new medium of television to reinforce her, and her husband's, positive public images.

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. Complete with illustrations and essential biographical details, it is an illuminating, entertaining, and ultimately inspiring read.

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Susan Swain is C-SPAN's co-CEO and, in addition to her senior management role at the network, has been an on-camera host for C-SPAN for more than thirty years, interviewing public officials, historians, and journalists for the public affairs network. The Presidents is her ninth book project with C-SPAN and PublicAffairs. She lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PublicAffairs
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1610397177
• ISBN 13: 9781610397179
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 495
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