| Title |
First mothers : the women who shaped the presidents / Bonnie Angelo ; with an epilogue on new First Mother, Barbara Bush. |
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| Edition |
1st HarperPerennial ed. |
| Description |
x, 466 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-450) and index. |
| Contents |
To the manner born [Franklin D. Roosevelt] -- Be a good boy, Harry [Harry S. Truman] -- Six boys and a piano [Dwight David Eisenhower] -- The glue that held it all together [John F. Kennedy] -- Dancing lessons for Lyndon [Lyndon B. Johnson] -- Fifty pies before breakfast [Richard Nixon] -- An act of courage [Gerald Ford] -- Mama's in the Peace Corps [Jimmy Carter] -- That's my Dutch! [Ronald Reagan] -- Play by mother's rules [George Bush] -- My life is like a country song [Bill Clinton] -- A new dynasty [George Walker Bush] -- Passsionate attachments. |
| Subject |
Mothers of presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Mothers of presidents. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0060937114 paperback |
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