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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private meeting with the President and his Chief of Staff without any witnesses. But she couldn't have predicted that she'd be forced to take on an investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the First Lady with strict orders to keep it a secret. The First Lady's absence comes in the...
Author
Language
English
Description
n May 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide.
Mary’s shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by her eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. Although they have long been estranged, Elizabeth knows Mary’s tenuous mental health has deteriorated through decades of trauma and loss. Yet is her suicide...
6) Eleanor
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired and influential women.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Laura Bush discusses her youth in a segregated and traditional West Texas town, the tragedy that changed her life, her courtship and marriage to George W. Bush, and her roles as wife, mother, and public figure.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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 only...
9) Becoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady, and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that 'when you travel with someone, you experience things that can't be fully appreciated by anyone who wasn't there'"--...
12) Pursuit
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Directed by her inebriated boss to meet with the First Lady in Washington, D.C., rookie lawyer Jessica Ford barely survives a high-speed car crash in which the First Lady is killed, after which anmesia-stricken Jessica begins to suspect that the crash was not an accident.
13) Living history
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 42
Physical Desc
xi, 562 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author chronicles her eight years as First Lady of the United States, looking back on her husband's two administrations, the challenges she faced during the period, the impeachment crisis, and her own political work.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
16) What happened
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 593 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
They would be called upon to lead a nation in one of its darkest hours -- but were they up to the task? He had been the wild, hard-drinking scion of one of America's premier political families. She was the school librarian with a warm smile and a tragic secret of her own. Yet after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, they rose to the challenge: He became the embodiment of America's fighting spirit and she assumed the role of "First Comforter"...
Author
Series
Mrs. Lincoln volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...