First ladies and the press : the unfinished partnership of the media age / / Maurine H. Beasley ; foreword by Caryl Rivers

• Autore: Beasley Maurine Hoffman
• Pubblicazione: Evanston, Ill., : Northwestern University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.91092
• Soggetto topico: Presidents' spouses - Press coverage - United States; Mass media - Political aspects - United States; Press and politics - United States; Presidents' spouses - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government Miscellanea
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- Early first ladies and the public sphere -- Jackie Kennedy and the construction of Camelot -- First ladies as political helpmates : Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon -- First ladies and feminism : Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter -- First ladies and image-making : Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton as media polarizer -- Laura Bush as emblem of national caring -- Looking ahead.
• Sommario/riassunto: At her first press conference, Eleanor Roosevelt, uncertain of her role as hostess or leader, passed a box of candied grapefruit peel to the thirty-five women journalists. Nearly sixty years later, Hillary Clinton, an accomplished professional woman and lawyer, tried to mollify her critics by handing out her chocolate-chip cookie recipe. These exchanges tells us as much about the social--and political--roles of women in America as they do about the relation of the first lady to the press and the public. Looking at the personal interaction between each first lady from Martha Washington to Laura Bush and the mass media of her day, Maurine H. Beasley traces the growth of the institution of the first lady as a part of the American political system. Her work shows how media coverage of first ladies, often limited to stereotypical ideas about women, has not adequately reflected the importance of their role.
• Titolo autorizzato: First ladies and the press
• ISBN: 0-8101-6234-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910735593503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Visions of the American press.