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Before republication, the Book-of-the-Month club chose Ladies as their main selection. Suddenly, Santmyer and her novel were a media sensation, including front-page coverage in the New York Times . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The paperback edition, published by Berkley Books in 1985, sold more than 2 million copies between June and September, making it ...
Remember the First Ladies is a book co-authored by Diana B. Carlin, Anita B. McBride, and Nancy Kegan Smith, published in January 2024 by Cognella Academic Publishing. [1] [2] This book is a more accessible version of the authors' previous textbook, designed for general readership.
Santmyer was born on November 25, 1895, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the oldest child of Joseph Wright and Bertha Hooven Santmyer.Her father had been a medical student in Cincinnati, but in 1900 switched to business and moved to the Hooven family home in Xenia, Ohio, taking a position with the R.A. Kelly Company, a rope manufacturer. [5]
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It emerged out of the activities of two Penzance book clubs, one each for ladies and gentlemen. The Ladies Book Club was the earliest, created in 1770 (possibly making it the only one of its kind outside London at the time), [3] and lending books to its members for four days at a time. The Gentleman's Book Club followed in 1779. [3]
The club issued an apology and a disclaimer on all of its books, but by that time, it had sold over 1.1 million. [6] This revelation led to a class action lawsuit against publisher Hyperion, a division of The Walt Disney Company, which settled the case by offering to swap the Beardstown Ladies books for other Hyperion books. [1]
These 24 books present a wide array of perspectives on the role of First Lady—from memoirs by Julia Grant, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Michelle Obama, to biographies on Jackie Kennedy, Barbara Bush ...
The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society was a group of several dozen women and a few men that had, since August 17, 2011, [1] organized regular gatherings around New York City, meeting to read and discuss books in public while topless.