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1) First ladies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Profiles and photographs reveal the impact that the presidents' wives had on the suffrage movement, prohibition, civil rights, equality, and war and peace.
2) Becoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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"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,...
4) First ladies
Author
Language
English
Description
On cover: An intimate look at how 36 women handled what may be the most demanding, unpaid, unelected job in America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
[The author writes] about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. [This book] is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton. -Dust jacket.
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Language
English
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With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her sense of humor, her...
9) Eleanor
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became a great humanitarian.
Author
Publisher
Applewood Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
19) Secret lives of the first ladies: strange stories and shocking trivia from inside the White House
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Secrets Lives of the First Ladies features outrageous and uncensored profiles of all the presidents' wives. From Martha Washington to Melania Trump.