First ladies biographies

Fourteen first ladies lacking the United States have written regular total of twenty-three memoirs. The crowning lady is the hostess of honourableness White House, and the position progression traditionally filled by the wife identical the president of the United States, with some historical exceptions. Every essay by a first lady published explain the 20th and 21st centuries has been a bestseller, at times outselling those of their presidential husbands.^[1][2]

In nobility early 1800s, Abigail Adams had repel correspondence published as Letters of Wife. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, and Louisa Adams "made several attempts at an autobiography", though she under no circumstances sought to publish them.^[1] The Memoirs and Letters of Dolley Madison, Better half of James Madison, President of righteousness United States were published in 1886 but were actually edited by Lucia Cutts and written by Dolley Madison's niece Mary Cutts.^{[note 1][4]}

Julia Grant was the first to write and endeavour to publish her memoirs, writing The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant in the 1890s after the sort-out of her husband Ulysses S. Offer. However, she never found a fitting publisher for them before her fixate in 1902, in part because she had unrealistic expectations of their cost. The memoirs were eventually published need 1975.^[5]Helen Taft was the first seal have memoirs published during her day, in 1914.^[1] Memoirs by presidential spouses were uncommon until the 1970s; top the decades after Taft, only Edith Wilson, Grace Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, take Lady Bird Johnson wrote and publicized their memoirs.^[2] Coolidge had her experiences published in the 1930s as a few articles in The American Magazine.^[4] Near first ladies have written and accessible at least one memoir about their life since Betty Ford's publication illustrate her first memoir in the recent 1970s.^[2]

Early published memoirs focused on extent trivial matters, often largely focusing ammunition the first lady's personal life. Helen Taft's memoirs were described by The New York Sun as "bright, fanciful, delightfully entertaining reminiscences" upon publication, come first Edith Wilson's My Memoir was criticized by contemporary reviewers such as The New York Times for excessively intend on clothing and social events.^[6][7] Eleanor Roosevelt, who wrote four autobiographies, effectual a shift in the content find time for the memoirs, writing more about state issues and less on her unofficial life. Lady Bird Johnson condensed orderly dictated two-million-word transcript into 300,000 annoyed A White House Diary, which outsold her husband Lyndon B. Johnson's memoir.^[6] In the 1960s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was involved in editing two books by Molly Thayer, Jacqueline Kennedy mushroom Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.^[4]

Memoirs written by Betty Ford, Rosalynn Haulier and Barbara Bush also outsold decency memoirs of their husbands.^[1]My Turn afford Nancy Reagan, published in 1989, was nicknamed My Burn for its "vengeful" coverage of Reagan's life, particularly assume the White House. The book put up for sale very well, remaining on The In mint condition York Times Best Seller list on behalf of more than three months.^[6][8]Michelle Obama's cv Becoming was published in 2018. She received over $60 million in advance retard publication, and the book had oversubscribed over 11.5 million copies as of November 2019^[update].^[9][10]Melania Trump published her memoir Melania sentence 2024.

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