Secret Lives of the First Ladies: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the Women of the White House [NOOK Book]

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Scandals, Seduction, Addiction, Adultery, Horrific Fashions—And the White House?!?
 
Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one! Secret Lives of the First Ladies features outrageous and uncensored profiles of the women of the White House—complete with hundreds of ...
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Secret Lives of the First Ladies: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the Women of the White House

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Overview

Scandals, Seduction, Addiction, Adultery, Horrific Fashions—And the White House?!?
 
Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one! Secret Lives of the First Ladies features outrageous and uncensored profiles of the women of the White House—complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright wacko facts. You’ll discover that:
 
     •  Dolley Madison loved to chew tobacco
     •  Mary Todd Lincoln conducted séances on a regular basis
     •  Eleanor Roosevelt and Ellen Wilson both carried guns
     •  Jacqueline Kennedy spent $121,000 on her wardrobe in a single year
     •  Betty Ford liked to chat on CB radios—her handle was “First Mama”
     •  Hillary Clinton dreamed of being an astronaut
     •  And much, much more
 
With chapters on every woman who’s ever made it to the White House, Secret Lives of the First Ladies tackles all of the tough 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 was Eleanor Roosevelt serving hot dogs to the King and Queen of England? American history was never this much fun in school!

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594744785
  • Publisher: Quirk Publishing
  • Publication date: 7/1/2010
  • Series: Secret Lives
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 96,424
  • File size: 6 MB

Meet the Author

Cormac O’Brian is the author of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents and Secret Lives of the Civil War. He lives with his wife in New Jersey.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Martha Washington (1789-1797) 11

Abigail Adams (1797-1801) 18

All the Presidents' Wives: Martha Jefferson 24

Dolley Madison (1809-1817) 25

Elizabeth Monroe (1817-1825) 32

Louisa Catherine Adams (1825-1829) 37

All the Presidents' Wives: Rachel Jackson 44

All the Presidents' Wives: Hannah Van Buren 45

Anna Harrison (1841) 46

Letitia Christian Tyler (1841-1842) 50

Julia Gardiner Tyler (1844-1845) 54

Sarah Childress Polk (1845-1849) 61

Margaret Taylor (1849-1850) 66

Abigail Fillmore (1850-1853) 71

All the Presidents' Wives: Caroline Fillmore 77

Jane Pierce (1853-1857) 78

Mary Todd Lincoln (1861-1865) 83

Eliza McCardle Johnson (1865-1869) 92

Julia Dent Grant (1869-1877) 98

Lucy Webb Hayes (1877-1881) 106

Lucretia Garfield (1881) 113

All the Presidents' Wives: Ellen Herndon Arthur 119

Frances Cleveland (1886-1889, 1893-1897) 120

Caroline Harrison (1889-1892) 128

All the Presidents' Wives: Mary Harrison 135

Ida Saxton McKinley (1897-1901) 136

All the Presidents' Wives: Alice Lee Roosevelt 143

Edith Kermit Roosevelt (1901-1909) 144

Helen Herron Taft (1909-1913) 151

Ellen Axson Wilson (1913-1914) 159

Edith Bolling Wilson (1915-1921) 165

Florence Kling Harding (1921-1923) 173

Grace Coolidge (1923-1929) 181

Lou Henry Hoover (1929-1933) 188

Eleanor Roosevelt (1933-1945) 196

Bess Truman (1945-1953) 204

Mamie Doud Eisenhower (1953-1961) 211

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1961-1963) 218

Lady Bird Johnson (1963-1969) 226

Pat Nixon (1969-1974) 234

Betty Ford (1974-1977) 243

Rosalynn Carter (1977-1981) 251

All the Presidents' Wives: Jane Wyman 258

Nancy Reagan (1981-1989)259

Barbara Bush (1989-1993) 267

Hillary Rodham Clinton (1993-2001) 274

Laura Bush (2001-2009) 282

Michelle Obama (2009-) 289

Selected Bibliography 296

Index 298

Acknowledgments 303

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