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Secret Lives of the First Ladies

Strange Stories and Shocking Trivia From Inside the White House

Cormac O'Brien author Eugene Smith illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Quirk Books

Published:12th Sep '17

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Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one! Secret Lives of the First Ladies features outrageous and uncensored profiles of the women of the White House complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright wacko facts. You ll discover that: Dolley Madison loved to chew tobacco Mary Todd Lincoln conducted seances on a regular basis Eleanor Roosevelt and Ellen Wilson both carried guns Jacqueline Kennedy spent $121,000 on her wardrobe in a single year Betty Ford liked to chat on CB radios her handle was First Mama Hillary Clinton dreamed of being an astronaut And much, much more. With chapters on every woman who s ever made it to the White House, Secret Lives of the First Ladies tackles all of the tough questions that other history books are afraid to ask: How many of these women owned slaves? Which ones were cheating on their husbands? And why was Eleanor Roosevelt serving hot dogs to the King and Queen of England? American history was never this much fun in school!

ISBN: 9781683690047

Dimensions: 203mm x 135mm x 23mm

Weight: 490g

352 pages