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The 25 Best Books About (And By) First Ladies

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)

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Julia Dent Grant, wife of 18th president Ulysses S. Grant, initially wrote these memoirs as a "family volume," with no intention of sharing them publicly, but in 1975, Julia's great-granddaughters finally allowed her words to be published, and they remain an "important historical resource for interpreting the lives of the Grants, Dents, and enslaved people who lived at White Haven in the nineteenth century," per the National Parks Service. They also speak to the relationship between Ulysses and Julia.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

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Perhaps the most famous First Lady of all time, biographer Barbara Leaming seeks to understand Jackie Kennedy in a new light. The first half of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis dives into her early life and marriage, and the latter half is all about the wake of her husband's assassination.

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First Lady Michelle Obama

When people ask First Lady Michelle Obama to describe herself, she doesn't hesitate to say that first and foremost, she is Malia and Sasha's mom.

But before she was a mother — or a wife, lawyer, or public servant — she was Fraser and Marian Robinson's daughter.

The Robinsons lived in a brick bungalow on the South Side of Chicago. Fraser was a pump operator for the Chicago Water Department, and despite being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at a young age, he hardly ever missed a day of work. Marian stayed home to raise Michelle and her older brother Craig, skillfully managing a busy household filled with love, laughter, and important life lessons.

A product of Chicago public schools, Michelle Robinson studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton University. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1988, she joined the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she later met Barack Obama, the man who would become the love of her life.

After a few years, Mrs. Obama decided her true calling was working with people to serv

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Family
Married to President
George W. Bush
Twin daughters, Jenna Hager
and Barbara Bush
Son in law, Henry Hager

College
Southern Methodist University, bachelor's degree in education

Graduate School
University of Texas at Austin, master's degree in library science

Career and Public Service
Public school teacher and librarian in the Houston, Dallas and Austin school systems; First Lady of Texas; First Lady of the United States

Mrs. Laura Bush has been a champion of the President's ambitious agenda and a gracious representative of the American people. A former teacher and librarian, she has dedicated herself to advancing education and promoting the well-being of women and families worldwide.

Mrs. Bush has been a key advocate of the President's historic education reform – the No Child Left Behind Act – and a staunch supporter of NCLB's Reading First program, which is the largest early reading initiative in American history. Early in the President's first term, she launched "Ready to Read, Ready to Learn," an education initiative that promo