First Families

图书信息

作者	Angelo, Bonnie
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780061972812
出版时间	2009-10-01
字数	57.2万
分类	HarperCollins e-books,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

What is it like to be America's First FamilyIn this wonderfully engaging book, Bonnie Angelo, Time correspondent and acclaimed author of First Mothers, probes two hundred years of American history to tell the story of real life within the White House walls how presidents, their wives, children, and extended families worked to create a home in an imposing national monument while attempting to keep their private lives from the public domain.First Families chronicles exhilarating moments as well as dark days at the nation's most famous address, with fascinating, behind-the-headline accounts of picture-book weddings, gossipy love affairs, rollicking children, domestic squabbles, and tragic deaths. From activist wives Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton to reluctant occupants Bess Truman and Jacqueline Kennedy, to those such as Mary Todd Lincoln, Dolley Madison, and madcap debutante Alice Roosevelt, who embraced their new address and status, here is an unforgettable human portrait of our First Families and how they coped, stumbled, or thrived in the national spotlight.

目录

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

One: Stepping into History

Two: "Out They Go, In We Go!"

Three: Growing Up in Headlines

Four: Love in the Fishbowl

Five: Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Six: All in the Family

Seven: The Mirror of the Times

Eight: The White House à la Mode

Nine: Twenty-nine Courses, Four Thousand Hands to Shake

Ten: Intramural Skirmishes

Eleven: Slings and Arrows

Twelve: Dark Days

Thirteen: Bittersweet Farewells

Fourteen: Footprints on History

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise

ALSO BY BONNIE ANGELO

Photographic Insert

Copyright

About the Publisher