Angelo, Bonnie.

First mothers : the women who shaped the presidents / Bonnie Angelo ; with an epilogue on new First Mother, Barbara Bush. - 1st HarperPerennial ed. - New York : HarperPerennial, 2001. - x, 466 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-450) and index.

To the manner born [Franklin D. Roosevelt] -- Be a good boy, Harry [Harry S. Truman] -- Six boys and a piano [Dwight David Eisenhower] -- The glue that held it all together [John F. Kennedy] -- Dancing lessons for Lyndon [Lyndon B. Johnson] -- Fifty pies before breakfast [Richard Nixon] -- An act of courage [Gerald Ford] -- Mama's in the Peace Corps [Jimmy Carter] -- That's my Dutch! [Ronald Reagan] -- Play by mother's rules [George Bush] -- My life is like a country song [Bill Clinton] -- A new dynasty [George Walker Bush] -- Passsionate attachments.

0060937114 (pbk.) 9780060937119 (pbk.)

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Mothers of presidents--United States--Biography.

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