Modern First Ladies to 1989: Their Documentary Legacy

by Nancy Kegan Smith

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The wives of the Pres. of the U.S. have become subjects for serious scholarly investigation on their own merits. The growth of presidential libraries during the 1970s and 1980s has been a positive force in providing a rich body of source material regarding what modern first ladies (FL) have done. Essays examine the papers and legacy of: Lou Henry Hoover, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, show more and Nancy Davis Reagan. Also, essays on: modern FL: an institutional perspective; the papers of four 20th-century FL; and the historical legacy of American FL. show less