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1) Camera girl: the coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Author

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza

Language

English

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New Biography

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

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"Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie Kennedy's years as a young woman chafing at the expectations of her family and her era as she seeks to follow her dreams of becoming a famous writer. Set primarily during the underexamined years of 1950-1954, when Jackie was 20 to 25 years old, the book recounts the extraordinary story of her late college years, coming-of-age, and her life as a young female journalist. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline...

2) Nellie Taft: the unconventional first lady of the ragtime era

Author

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza

Language

English

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Book, eBook

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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...

3) Ida McKinley: The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability

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Anthony, Carl Sferrazza

Language

English

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This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847-1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from epilepsy-which the society of her era mistakenly believed to border on mental illness-Ida McKinley was an exceptional woman who exerted a strong influence on her husband's political decisions. Born in Canton, Ohio, Ida Saxton...

4) First ladies: the saga of the presidents' wives and their power

Author

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza

Publisher

W. Morrow

Pub. Date

1990

Language

English

5) Camera Girl: Tthe Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Author

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza

Publisher

Gallery Books

Pub. Date

2023

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023
"One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date." —The Washington Post

An illuminating and "wholly refreshing" (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer in Washington, DC; and her romance...