Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady

by Nancy Beck Young

Book Overview

Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation's first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White House press corps saw in her "old-fashioned wifehood," she very much foreshadowed the "new woman" of the era.

Nancy Beck Young presents the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700622772
• ISBN13: 9780700622771
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"