First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age

Northwestern University Press

www.nupress.northwestern.edu

Copyright © 2005 by

Maurine H. Beasley.

Published 2005 by Northwestern University Press.

All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN 0-8101-2312-6

ISBN Source: 9780810123137

ISBN ebook: 9780810162341

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Beasley, Maurine Hoffman.

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

p. cm. — (Visions of the American press)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8101-2312-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Presidents’ spouses—Press coverage—United States. 2. Mass media—Political aspects—United States. 3. Press and politics—United States. 4. Presidents’ spouses—United States—Biography—Miscellanea. 5. United States—Politics and government—Miscellanea. I. Title. II. Series.

E176.2.B43 2005

973.91'092'2—dc22

2005018040

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