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Author: Helen Brenton Pryor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 312
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A biography of the woman who, in addition to serving for four years as First Lady in the White House, accompanied her husband all over the world, nursed the wounded on the battlefront of China's Boxer Rebellion, participated in many World War I relief movements, and served as President of the Girl Scouts of America.
Author: Helen Brenton Pryor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
A biography of the woman who, in addition to serving for four years as First Lady in the White House, accompanied her husband all over the world, nursed the wounded on the battlefront of China's Boxer Rebellion, participated in many World War I relief movements, and served as President of the Girl Scouts of America.
Author: Annette Dunlap Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1640125159 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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Annette B. Dunlap takes a fresh look at Lou Henry Hoover, the First Lady who preceded Eleanor Roosevelt, from Hoover’s relief efforts during World War I to her work developing organizations that promoted self-sufficiency among young girls and women.
Author: Nancy Beck Young Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
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This first thoroughly researched appraisal of Hoover's tenure as first lady (1929-1933) argues that she was the first modern presidential wife because of her use of radio, adoption of social causes, and public activism outside White House traditions.
Author: Helen Brenton Pryor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
A biography of the woman who, in addition to serving for four years as First Lady in the White House, accompanied her husband all over the world, nursed the wounded on the battlefront of China's Boxer Rebellion, participated in many World War I relief movements, and served as President of the Girl Scouts of America.
Author: Nancy Beck Young Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700622772 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation’s first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White House press corps saw in her “old-fashioned wifehood,” she very much foreshadowed the “new woman” of the era. Nancy Beck Young presents the first thoroughly documented study of Lou Henry Hoover’s White House years, 1929–1933, showing that, far from a passive prelude to Eleanor Roosevelt, she was a true innovator. Young draws on the extensive collection of Lou Hoover’s personal papers to show that she was not only an important First Lady but also a key transitional figure between nineteenth- and twentieth-century views on womanhood. Lou Hoover was a multifaceted woman: a college graduate, a lover of the outdoors, a supporter of Girl Scouting, and a person engaged in social activism who endorsed political involvement for women and created a program to fight the Depression. Young traces Hoover’s many philanthropic efforts both before and during the Hoover presidency—contrasting them with those of her husband—and places her public activities in the larger context of contemporary women’s activism. And she shows that, unlike her predecessors, Hoover did more than entertain: she revolutionized the office of First Lady. Yet as Young reveals, Hoover was constrained as First Lady by her inability to achieve the same results that she had previously accomplished in her very public career for the volunteer community. As diligently as she worked to combat the hardship of the Depression for average Americans by mobilizing private relief efforts, her efforts ultimately had little effect. Although her celebrity has paled in the shadow of her husband’s negative association with the Great Depression, Lou Hoover’s story reveals a dynamic woman who used her activism to refashion the office of First Lady into a modern institution reflecting changes in the ways American women lived their lives. Young’s study of Hoover’s White House years shows that her legacy of innovation made a lasting mark on the office and those who followed.
Author: Katherine A.S. Sibley Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118732243 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 761
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This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century Explores the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands’ legacies Brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived both in popular literature and scholarly debate Provides concise biographical treatments for each First Lady
Author: Helen Brenton Pryor
Author: Helen Brenton Pryor
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Author: Dale C. Mayer
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Author: Katherine A.S. Sibley