A kids' guide to America's first ladies

Examines America's first ladies and how they helped advance women's rights, political causes and other important progressive changes.

Main Author: Krull, Kathleen (Author)
Other Authors: DiVito, Anna (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.