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First families :

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First families :

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the impact of the White House on their lives /

Bonnie Angelo.

First Harper paperback edition.

New York :

Harper,

2007, ©2005.

xiv, 336 pages :

illustrations ;

21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index.

What is it like to be America's First Family? Journalist Bonnie Angelo 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. Angelo chronicles exhilarating moments as well as dark days at the nation's most famous address, with 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 embraced their new address and status, such as Mary Todd Lincoln, Dolley Madison, and madcap debutante Alice Roosevelt, here is a portrait of our First Families and how they coped, stumbled, or thrived in the national spotlight.

White House (Washington, D.C.)

White House (Washington, D.C.)

Children of presidents-- United States, Biography, Anecdotes.

Presidents-- Family relationships-- United States, Anecdotes.

Presidents' spouses-- United States, Biography, Anecdotes.

Presidents-- United States, Biography, Anecdotes.

Children of presidents.

Manners and customs.

Presidents-- Family relationships.

Presidents' spouses.

Presidents.

Washington (D.C.), Social life and customs, Anecdotes.

United States.

Washington (D.C.)

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