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    First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
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    First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
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    First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents

    By Bonnie Angelo

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    About this ebook

    Bonnie Angelo, a veteran reporter and writer for Time, has captured the daily lives, thoughts, and feelings of the remarkable women who played such a large role in developing the characters of the modern American presidents. From formidably aristocratic Sara Delano Roosevelt to diehard Democrat Martha Truman, champion athlete Dorothy Bush, and hard-living Virginia Clinton Kelley, Angelo blends these women's stories with the texture of their lives and with colorful details of their times. First Mothers is an in-depth look at the special mother-son relationships that nurtured and helped propel the last twelve American presidents to the pinnacle of power.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061972829
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    First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
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    Bonnie Angelo

    Bonnie Angelo is the author of First Mothers. During her more than twenty-five years with Time magazine, she has reported on the White House and has covered newsmakers and events across America and the world. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and New York City.

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    • 4/5
      Unlike the other two reviewers commenting on this book, I neither found it silly or boring. I do agree with one of them: that it would be useful for teachers when discussing the Presidents with students in class and perhaps more teachers should have those kinds of discussions than apparently do. So many of our people know so little of most of the folk who have shaped the country. The book is not an earth-shattering treatise but it is interesting as anecdotal history and as a philosophical presentation of some of what has gone into making men into Presidents.
    • 4/5
      Although I suspect there was some glossing over here and there concerning deeper family issues (especially for presidents still alive at the time of publication), this was an interesting look at the lives and relationships with their sons of the Presidential mothers from Sara Delano Roosevelt to Barbara Bush.
    • 3/5
      I found this book very slow and boring at times. I enjoy learning about history and even the presidents. This book was very long winded and I felt somethings were repeated over and over again.The book starts out reading about Franklin Roosevelt and goes to George W. Bush. It seemed like all these presidents had very similar lives and yet different at the same time. Either they were poor or their mother was poor.I probably wouldn't have read this book if it wasn't for my book club.