Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History Tapa dura - 2021

Lawrence, Kansas U.S.A: University Press of Kansas, 2021. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4. VERY GOOD/DJ VERY GOOD xiii 419 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine in very good condition. Dust jacket in very good condition. Binding firm.

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Hardback. New. Southern First Ladies explores the ways in which geographical and cultural backgrounds molded a group of influential first ladies. The contributors to this volume use the lens of 'Southernness' to define and better understand the cultural attributes, characteristics, actions, and activism of seventeen first ladies from Martha Washington to Laura Bush. The first ladies defined in this volume as Southern were either all born in the South-specifically, the former states of the Confederacy or their slave-holding neighbors like Missouri-or else lived in those states for a significant portion of their adult lives (women like Julia Tyler, Hillary Clinton, and Barbara Bush). Southern climes indelibly shaped these women and, in turn, a number of enduring White House traditions. Along with the standards of proper behavior and ceremonial customs and hospitality demanded by notions of Southern white womanhood, some of which they successfully resisted or subverted, early first ladies… Leer más

University Press of Kansas, 2021-01-20. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Univ Pr of Kansas, 2021. Hardcover. New. 419 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

Univ Pr of Kansas, 2021. Hardcover. New. 419 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

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