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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier... |
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle... |
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First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
Susan Swain - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History
Michael L. Gillette - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation... |
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TIME Hillary: An American Life
Editors of Time Magazine - Time
Format: Print book
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Hillary Clinton embodies a world of "firsts": The first First Lady to have an active - and controversial role - in her husband's presidency, the first American First Lady to run for political office (and win it), the first female United States Senator from the state of New York,... |
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Reflections: Life After the White House
Barbara Bush - Scribner; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Picking up where her earlier bestselling memoir left off, Barbara Bush begins this second volume with the inauguration of her son, President George W. Bush, in January 2001. She then flashes back eight years to President Clinton's inauguration, when President George H.W. Bush and Mrs Bush... |
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For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years
Sally Bedell Smith - Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. Their intertwined personal and professional lives had far-reaching consequences–for politics, domestic policy, and international affairs–and their marital... |
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Spoken from the Heart
Laura Bush - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage... |
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Nancy: A Portrait of My Years with Nancy Reagan
Michael K Deaver - Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Candid, moving and insightful, Nancy is the most personal look at Nancy Davis Reagan ever published. She was the daughter of a single mother. She was a Hollywood movie star. She is the wife of one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century. She is a cancer survivor. And she now wages... |
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