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

by Krull, Kathleen, author.

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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2017.

Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Presidents' spouses -- Political activity -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

9780062381071 (hardcover)

0062381075 (hardcover)

9780062381064 (paperback)

0062381067 (paperback)

238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Introduction: First Ladies rule -- Must I always be first?: Martha Washington -- 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.

Find out what our country's First Ladies thought, did, and advocated for as they moved into the White House. Why did the Patriots love Martha Washington? What causes did Eleanor Roosevelt support and lead? What did Jacqueline Kennedy do to establish her legacy long after she left the White House? How did Hillary Clinton turn her role as First Lady into a political career of her own? Packed with anecdotes and sidebars, a timeline of the advancement of women's rights, and illustrations and portraits.

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