Untold power : the fascinating rise and complex legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/WILSON,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York, New York] : Viking, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593489994, 0593489993 :, 0593489993, 9780593489994
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A Virginia childhood 1872-1891 -- Woman of Washington 1891-1908 -- Merry widow 1908-1914 -- Romanced by the President 1915 -- The First Lady in war 1916-1918 -- The First Lady in peace 1918-1919 -- The stroke 1919 -- "Stewardship" 1919-1921 -- After the White House 1921-1924 -- Woman of Washington reprise 1924-1961
"This portrait of the first acting woman president, written by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power, tracks the ascent of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, one of American history's most influential and complicated women."--