
Did you know Mary Todd Lincoln was a shopaholic? Have you heard that Mamie Eisenhower was a sleep-'til-noon slacker? Which recent first lady's approval rating consistently topped her husband's? Part irreverent portrait gallery, part exuberant exposé, Feisty First Ladies and Other Unforgettable White House Women introduces a remarkable array of wild women-from first first lady Martha Washington to hot hostess Dolley Madison and Harvard-educated Michelle Obama. Author Autumn Stephens also dishes on daughters like Reagan rebel Patti Davis, Tricia Nixon, Susan Ford, and Mary Cheney, who were the tabloid fodder of their day.
Feisty First Ladies and Other Unforgettable White House Women is the first book to profile all of the first ladies, and includes "Barack's Rock," Michelle Obama. Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with amazing stranger-than-fiction facts from our American history, this is a journey into the realm of the eclectic sisterhood whose outrageous words and deeds have rocked the fusty old foundations of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and the nation!
Here is a rare peek inside the doors of the world's most famous address! Take a tour from the restless Lincoln bedroom to the basement bowling alley, and out to the Rose Garden, where the Clintons installed a seven-seat hot tub. Enjoy a visit complete with the backdoor backstories these fascinating femmes who lived, loved, and learned inside the White House.
Autumn Stephens is the author of the best-selling and groundbreaking Wild Women series. She runs a very popular writing workshop series in the Bay Area and has been featured in Glamour, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times. She lives in Berkeley, CA.