Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era,
by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Nellie Taft was an
early champion of women's rights and a precursor of such policy-driven first
ladies as Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton. She was strong, shrewd, drank,
smoked and gambled and displayed an astonishing venom for her husband's
opponents (especially Teddy Roosevelt) despite her otherwise Victorian
sensibilities. Anthony has written other first lady biographies in the same
vivid and absorbing style.
-Jane
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