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Nellie Taft The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era

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ISBN-10: 0060513837

ISBN-13: 9780060513832

Edition: N/A

Authors: Carl Sferrazza Anthony

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On the morning of William Howard Taft's inauguration, Nellie Taft publicly expressed that theirs would be a joint presidency by shattering precedent and demanding that she ride alongside her husband down Pennsylvania Avenue, a tradition previously held for the outgoing president. In an era before Eleanor Roosevelt, this progressive First Lady was an advocate for higher education and partial suffrage for women, and initiated legislation to improve working conditions for federal employees. She smoked, drank, and gambled without regard to societal judgment, and she freely broke racial and class boundaries. Drawing from previously unpublished diaries, a lifetime of love letters between Will…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Carl Sferrazza Anthony is the nation's leading authority on the political power and social influence of First Ladies, and his written extensively about the First Families. He is the author of several books including America's First Families and As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Friends and Family, which includes exclusive interviews with Senator Ted Kennedy. He has written for George, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times and many other publications and is a contributor to Voter.com.

Acknowledgments
Prologue: Being First
First Lady of the Land (1861-1878)
Beer, Cigarettes, and Gambling (1878-1884)
The Will of Love (1884-1890)
Working Wife (1886-1890)
My Dearest and Best Critic
Managing the Music (1893-1899)
Rigadon
Queen of the Palace (1901-1904)
"Teddy, Nellie, and Will" (1904-1907)
Precedent and Mrs. Taft
Ragtime
Blossoming
The Stroke
Return of the Comet
The Stars and Silver Forever
Titanic
"If They Don't Win, It's a Shame"
Elba (1913-1921)
In His Court (1921-1930)
Adventures of an Old Lady (1930-1943)
Notes
Bibliography
Index