EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT : Creating the Modern First Lady /
Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to h...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "An aristocrat to the tips of her fingers"
- The first year in the White House
- Charities and culture
- Wife and mother
- A woman of influence
- After the White House.