The First Ladies Fact Book
Subtitle: The Stories of the Women of the White House from Martha Washington to Laura Bush
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: November 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9781579124687
Subjects: Social life and customs; Presidents' spouses; First Ladies; Reference; Biography / Autobiography; History; United States; Historical - U.S.; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes; Bibliographies & Indexes; Biography
First sentence: When sixty-year-old Martha Washington arrived in New York in the spring of 1789 to join her husband, the newly inaugurated president of the United States, she had no notion of what to expect, nor of what was expected of her as the First Lady of the United States.