Nicola Gillies Knihy

From the Publisher While Americans don't vote for a First Lady the way they vote for a president, the women of the White House boast impressive accomplishments: Martha Washington was the first First Lady. Abigail Adams was the first woman to be both a wife and a mother of an American president. Eleanor Roosevelt was the first First Lady to organize a press conference. The First Ladies of the United States, which comes in gift-book size, sketches short biographies of the wives of American presidents, telling about their personal lives both before and after their stay in the White House. Each biography is accompanied by a portrait.