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First Ladies
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I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I'd known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the sm
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― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
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No first lady before had ever become such a public figure. Her breadth of activities created new expectations against which her successors would be measured.
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― No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
― No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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