Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady by Nancy Beck Young

Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady



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Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady Nancy Beck Young
Page: 256
ISBN: 9780700613571
Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation's first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White House press corps saw in her "old-fashioned wifehood," she very much foreshadowed the "new woman" of the era. Nancy Beck Young presents the first thoroughly documented study of Lou Henry Hoover's White House years, 1929-1933, showing that, far from a passive prelude to Eleanor Roosevelt, she was a true innovator. Young draws on the extensive collection of Lou Hoover's personal papers to show... MORE EBOOKS:







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