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The memoirs were eventually published in 1975. [5] Helen Taft was the first to have memoirs published during her lifetime, in 1914. [1] Memoirs by presidential spouses were uncommon until the 1970s; in the decades after Taft, only Edith Wilson, Grace Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Lady Bird Johnson wrote and published their memoirs. [2]
Perhaps the most famous First Lady memoir in recent years is Michelle Obama's bestselling Becoming, which covered her childhood in Chicago through her time in the White House as America's first ...
The following is a list of works about the spouses of presidents of the United States. While this list is mainly about presidential spouses, administrations with a bachelor or widowed president have a section on the individual (usually a family member) that filled the role of First Lady.
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Betty Ford was one of the world's most visible women. A new memoir recalls how, when she went public regarding her struggles with addiction, she changed her country forever.
Four years after the roaring success of her memoir Becoming, Michelle Obama is back with her second book since leaving the White House. Michelle Obama is becoming the first lady of memoirs Skip to ...
Becoming is the memoir by former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, published on November 13, 2018. [1] [2] Described by the author as a deeply personal experience, [3] the book talks about her roots and how she found her voice, as well as her time in the White House, her public health campaign, and her role as a mother. [4]
Egan and the younger Helen worked to write a narrative about the former First Lady's time in office, drawing upon a memoir by Archibald Butt and Helen herself. The two made the story a first-person narrative and took the project to the publishing company Dodd, Mead & Co., proposing the title to be Recollections of Full Years. [4]