First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Angelo, Bonnie

Verlag: William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2000

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition white boards/navy blue spine/gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Selected Readings; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Bonnie Angelo has written a superb book depicting and defining the profound influence of mothers on so many presidents. Angelo found the key to presidential personalities and ambitions - their mothers. Her book is beautifully written and long needed." - Helen Thomas. "First Mothers offers fresh and unique insight that is simply and gracefully written. A mother's hand shapes and inspires presidents -- and those who would be -- more than any other force, and by doing so carries this grand republic along." - Hugh Sidey, TIME. "Through new research, Bonnie Angelo has assembled a fresh and enlightening new perspective on that most primary of all human relationships -- motherhood. First Mothers gives us the human beings, in their attributes and deficiencies, with an understanding narrative voice." - Carl Sperrazza Anthony, historian and author. "Why hasn't anyone done this before? Bonnie Angelo's FIrst Mothers is an important piece in the puzzle of why presidents are the way they are." - Stephen Hess, Brookings Institution and author. "First Mothers tells the captivating stories of the mothers who played such large roles in developing the characters of the modern American presidents. The book covers a wide range of memorable personalities, from formidably aristocratic Sara Delano Roosevelt to diehard Democrat Martha Truman, from zealous pacifist Ida Eisenhower to family matriarch Rose Kennedy, nurturing Rebekah Baines Johnson, stoic Hannah Milhous Nixon, and courageous Dorothy Ford. From outspoken Peace Corps mother Lillian Carter to would-be actress Nelle Reagan, champion athlete Dorothy Bush, and gambling, hard-living Virginia Kelley Clinton, First Mothers invites us into the historic lives of these extraordinary women. Much has been written about FIrst Ladies, but now Bonnie Angelo, a veteran correspondent and bureau chief for TIME, has captured the daily lives, thoughts, and feelings of these remarkable mothers and the relationships between them and their sons. Angelo recounts stories of traditional family values nurtured to the fullest, examples that should resonate with today's parents. She blends these women's stories with the texture of their lives and the colorful details of their times, and creates much more than faded daguerreotypes in their family albums. Her enthralling personal anecdotes leap off the page to reveal brilliant, moving lives, up close and personal. Based on dozens of interviews with the president-sons and other living relatives of these remarkable women, FIrst Mothers is a richly textured, in-depth look at the lives, the influence, and the patterns that can be identified in the special mother-son relationships that nurtured the modern American presidents -- the last eleven -- to the pinnacle of power." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006457

Bibliografische Details

Titel: First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the ...

Verlag: William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2000

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition