Secret Lives of the First Ladies

5-1/4 x 8 in; 296 pp ;
Paperback
Published in May, 2005
ISBN 1594740143
ISBN13 9781594740145
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Secret Lives of the First Ladies -- From the author of our popular Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents comes another rambunctious look at White House history—and this time, women are in the spotlight. Secrets Lives of the First Ladies features outrageous and uncensored profiles of all the presidents' wives.

You'll discover that Dolley Madison loved to chew tobacco. Mary Todd Lincoln was committed to an asylum, and Mamie Eisenhower never missed an episode of As the World Turns. You'll also learn why Hillary Clinton went to work for Wal-Mart (long before she started campaigning for a higher minimum wage).

Complete with biographies of every first lady, Secret Lives of the First Ladies tackles rough questions that other history books are afraid to ask: How many of these women owned slaves? Which ones were cheating on their husbands? And why did Eleanor Roosevelt serve hot dogs to the Kings and Queens of England? American history was never this much fun!

Cormac O'Brien is the author of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents.

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Trivial Details

2008-04-01 | 1:31 PM | Loren Hoekstra

Why are the trivial details of the first ladies' lives so focused on? Are they not as intelligent as their husbands? Maybe not, but they could have been remembered as more than this book portrays them. Perhaps this book is completely accurate- that's not my problem with it. I just wish that we could look at the accomplishments of the presidents' wives as more than just being the First Lady.