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| The Administration of President Hayes | Burgess, John | 1916 | New York: Charles Scribner's Sons | |
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| The Age of Innocence in the White House | | 1927 | Literary Digest 4 February | Interview with Rutherford Platt Hayes. |
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| American First Ladies | Watson, Robert P., ed. | 2002 | Pasadena, CA: Salem Press | |
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| America’s First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House | Anthony, Carl Sferrazza | 2000 | New York: Touchstone | |
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| America’s First Ladies: Ohio Library was Established in 1997 in Their Honor | Wadley, Carma | 2007 | Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) 19 February 2007 | Article celebrates the tenth anniversary of the National First Ladies Library and includes a quiz on the subject of First Ladies.
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| Autographs--A Testimonial to a First Lady | Marchman, Watt P | 1952 | Autograph Collectors’ Journal Winter | |
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| Brown. The Garfield Orbit | Leech, Margaret, and Harry J | 1978 | New York: Harper and Row | |
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| Celebrating Women: History, Biographies, and Museums | Byerly, Greg, and Carolyn Brodie | 2005 | Library Media Activities Monthly April 2005 | Reviews of websites containing information about the First Ladies, including the National First Ladies Library. |
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| Children In the White House | Sadler, Christine | 1967 | New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
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| Christmas at Spiegel Grove | | 1993 | Lady's Gallery | |
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| Congress Clears Dollar Coin Bill | Higa, Liriel | 2005 | CQ Weekly 26 December 2005 | House of Representatives passes bill which would allow the Treasury to mint $10 coins with images of First Ladies. |
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| Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House | Young, Dwight, and Margaret Johnson, eds. | 2008 | Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society | Reproductions of letters from the Library of Congress and the National Archives to and from First Ladies, with annotations explaining the nature of the correspondence and the historical contexts within which each epistle was written.
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| A Diplomat’s Wife in Washington | De Hegerman-Lindencrone, Madame | 1913 | Harper’s Magazine December | |
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| Faith of the First Ladies | MacGregor, Jerry and Marie Prys | 2006 | Grand Rapids: Baker Books | |
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| The First Ladies | Klapthor, Margaret Brown | 1989 | Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association | |
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| First Ladies | Prindiville, Kathleen | 1955 | New York: Macmillan | |
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| The First Ladies | Barzman, Sol | 1970 | New York: Cowles | |
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| First Ladies | Caroli, Betty Boyd | 1987 | New York: Oxford University Press | |
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| First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Barbara Bush | DeCesare, Linda | 1990 | New York: Random House | |
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| First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama | Caroli, Betty Boyd | 2009 | New York: Oxford University Press | Updated, fourth edition of Caroli's classic analysis of the successes, failings, and personalities of the 41 women who served as first ladies. The book will be released in paperback in 2010. |
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| The First Ladies: Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton | Seward, James, and Lynda DeCesare | 1992 | Baltimore: Ottenheimer Publications | |
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| First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents’ Wives and Their Power, 1789-1961, Vol. 1 | Anthony, Carl Sferrazza | 1990 | New York: Morrow | |
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| First Ladies: Women Who Called the White House Home | Gormley, Beatrice | 1997 | New York: Scholastic | |
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| First Ladies: A Biographical Dictionary | Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider | 2001 | New York: Checkmark Books | |
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| First Ladies: A Profile of America's First Ladies; Michelle Obama to Martha Washington | Vander Pol, Stacie, ed. | 2009 | Seattle, WA: Pacific Publishing Studio | Profiles of each First Lady; themes include sacrifices made and benefits gained. |
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| First Ladies and the Press: Looking Ahead | Beasley, Maurine H. | 2006 | Media Report to Women Winter 2006 | Details how First Ladies have been represented by the media. |
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| A First Ladies’ Man | Hallett, Vicky | 2005 | U. S. News and World Report 1 August 2005 | Interview with Cormac O’Brien, author of The Secret Lives of the First Ladies. |
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| First Ladies of the United States: A Biographical Dictionary | Watson, Robert P. | 2001 | Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers | |
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| First Ladies of the White House | Brooks, Gertrude Zeth | 1969 | Chicago: Chas. Hallberg | Brief biographies accompany the official portraits or photographs of each first lady, except Margaret Taylor, for whom one does not exist. Also reproduced are official portraits of the presidents and photographs of one dress worn by each of the first ladies.
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| The First Lady: A Site of 'American Womanhood' | Anderson, Karrin Vasby | 2004 | Inventing a Voice: The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the Twentieth Century | Vasby's essay can be found in Inventing a Voice: The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the Twentieth Century, ed. Molly Meijer Wertheimer |
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