It began with Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. It accelerated with
Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson became
partners in office and Nancy and Ronnie seemed joined at the hip.
Without question, the presidential couple has arrived as a force in
politics. Yet surprisingly, the electorate is not happy about it.
The emergence of the presidential couple is one of the most
important and contentious developments in America's postwar
political history. Its citizens' reaction to the First Couple
reflects the country's changing morality, its uncertain attitude
toward feminism, and the increasing power of the media. Gil Troy
traces these shifts through ten presidential marriages, from the
homesick tensions between Harry and Bess Truman to the very public
scandals endured by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Along the way,
readers learn of Mamie Eisenhower's perseverance on her husband's
campaign trail, Gerald Ford's embarrassment over Betty's outspoken
honesty, and the amazing political success of Nancy and Ronald
Reagan's partnership in office. With a new chapter devoted to
Hillary and Bill Clinton's tainted partnership in office and to our
present First Lady's senatorial ambitions, this edition of Gil
Troy's Mr. and Mrs. President offers fresh insights into America's
paradoxical expectations for its presidential wives and
husbands.
"Troy argues that the rise of the First Couple is not simply a
function of the women's movement, but reflects a mixture of
factors, including the weakening of parties, the rise of
personality politics, the increasing power of the Presidency and
the Federal Government and perhaps, most important of all, the
'rise of the mass media and the new political culture it
spawned.'"--"New York Times Book Review."
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