Madam President : the secret presidency of Edith Wilson / William Hazelgrove.
Material type: TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, an imprint of Regency Publishing, [2016]Distributor: New York, NY : Perseus Distribution Description: xi, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 162157475X
- 9781621574750
- Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, 1872-1961 -- Political activity
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
- Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, 1872-1961
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
- Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921
- Political participation
- Politics and government
- Presidents' spouses
- United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- HISTORY / Women
- 1913-1921
- 973.91/3092 B 23
- E767.3.W55 H39 2016
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library BIOGRAPHY | Adult Nonfiction | WILSON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003696564 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.
An up-close look at Edith Wilson, a first lady with unequaled responsibilities during her husband's presidency. After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the chief executive. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and had only been married to President Wilson for four years, yet in the tenuous peace following the end of World War I, she dedicated herself to managing the office of the president, reading all correspondence intended for her bedridden husband. Though her Oval Office authority was acknowledged in Washington circles at the time--one senator called her "the presidentress who had fulfilled the dream of suffragettes by changing her title from First Lady to Acting First Man"--her legacy as the first woman president is now largely forgotten. William Hazelgrove's Madam President is a vivid, engaging portrait of the woman who became the acting president of the United States in 1919, months before women officially won the right to vote.
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