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On the morning of William Howard Taft's inauguration, Nellie Taft publicly expressed that theirs would be a joint presidency by shattering precedent and demanding that she ride alongside her husband down Pennsylvania Avenue, a tradition previously held for the outgoing president. In an era before Eleanor Roosevelt, this progressive First Lady was an advocate for higher education and partial suffrage for women, and initiated legislation to improve working conditions for federal employees. She smoked, drank, and gambled without regard to societal judgment, and she freely broke racial and class boundaries. Drawing from previously unpublished diaries, a lifetime of love letters between Will and Nellie, and detailed family correspondence and recollections, critically acclaimed presidential family historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony develops a riveting portrait of Nellie Taft as one of the strongest links in the series of women -- from Abigail Adams to Hillary Rodham Clinton -- often critically declared "copresidents."… (plus d'informations)
LIke most of the LibraryThing and Amazon reviewers I too read Anthony's biography of Florence Harding and must acknowledge it. Perhaps the Harding book stands out in the reviewers mind because as Anthony described her she is a far more unconventional a figure as is Nellie, more controversial, and more interesting. Maybe it is "ragtime" versus "flapper" period. Nellie is more conventional. ( )
As a Taft relation, this book became a "necessary" read for me. Fortunately, Nellie Taft was a lot more interesting than I understood her to be, and there's much more to her life than being the First Lady who brought the cherry trees to Washington. ( )
4084 Nellie Taft The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony (read 23 Oct 2005) On May 31, 2000, I read this author's good biography of Florence Harding, so when I saw this book I decided to read it, even though the subject was not a big interest of mine. Nellie (nee Herron) Taft was born 2 June 1861 in Cincinnati, married William Howard Taft in June 1886, died 22 May 1943 in Washington and is the first First Lady buried in Arlington National Cemetery. I enjoyed ths book much more than I expected to. It is superbly researched and since Nellie was very much caught up in her husband's career it is exceptionally interesting. Nellie never liked Teddy Roosevelt's wife, nor Teddy, and she told her husband in 1908 that TR would turn on him. The book is written from the Taft viewpoint and so Nellie comes out looking pretty good--tho she was imperious and quite demanding and gave her husband a hard time often. When she was a girl she wanted to marry a man who would be President, and she pushed Taft to be President when what he wanted was to be Chief Justice. He became both, but he became President because Nellie insisted he seek that position. This was a great book to read, far more interesting than I expected. ( )
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Yo no naka wa / Mikka minu ma ni / Sakura kana. Life is short, like the three-day / Glory of the cherry blossom. - Japanese Proverb, Attributed to Masso Yoshikawa, 1926
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For Olivia Sferrazza, Kendall Sullivan, Grace Campbell-McGuire, and Eva Cullen, those little girls who can now all grow up to be President on their own.
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In the black of the night on November 3, 1908 its columns, portico, and wings made ghostly by the dancing shadows of the torchlight parade, the Taft Mansion resembled the most famous building in America.
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She also hit on what might be the single greatest lesson of the life of Helen "Nellie" Herron Taft: Never give up. "Mrs. Taft's hopes were initially dashed [but]...the hardy and generous Japanese trees," recalled the Justice, "were as undaunted as Mrs. Taft."
On the morning of William Howard Taft's inauguration, Nellie Taft publicly expressed that theirs would be a joint presidency by shattering precedent and demanding that she ride alongside her husband down Pennsylvania Avenue, a tradition previously held for the outgoing president. In an era before Eleanor Roosevelt, this progressive First Lady was an advocate for higher education and partial suffrage for women, and initiated legislation to improve working conditions for federal employees. She smoked, drank, and gambled without regard to societal judgment, and she freely broke racial and class boundaries. Drawing from previously unpublished diaries, a lifetime of love letters between Will and Nellie, and detailed family correspondence and recollections, critically acclaimed presidential family historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony develops a riveting portrait of Nellie Taft as one of the strongest links in the series of women -- from Abigail Adams to Hillary Rodham Clinton -- often critically declared "copresidents."
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