Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

by Amy S. Greenberg

Book Overview

The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk--a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.

While the Women's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385354134
• ISBN13: 9780385354134
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"