Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady

ISBN-13: 9780700626519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 182 str.

Lewis L. Gould

Opis

Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to her husband. Lewis Gould's path-breaking study, however, presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edith Roosevelt has become.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. ""An Aristocrat to the Tips of Her Fingers""
• 2. The First Year in the White House
• 3. Charities and Culture
• 4. Wife and Mother
• 5. A Woman of Influence
• 6. After the White House
• Notes
• Bibliographic Essay
• Index