Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady

by Lewis L. Gould

Book Overview

Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to her husband. Lewis Gould's path-breaking study, however, presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edith Roosevelt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061902X
• ISBN13: 9780700619023
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A complete waste of time and good paper.

This is a vile book written through the modem lens of political correctness and wokism. It is littered with inaccuracies. One gets the impression the author was justifying is job or higher education by pandering to current higher educational thinking.