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TITLE: Ellen & Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies
SPEAKER: Kristie Miller
EVENT DATE: 03/30/2011
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 52 minutes
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DESCRIPTION:
The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought to have had little impact on history. Edith Bolling Wilson was flamboyant and confident but left a legacy of controversy. Kristie Miller discusses them, the subject of her new book.
Speaker Biography: Kristie Miller is a research associate at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona and author of "Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman" and "Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880-1944." She is also co-editor of "A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 1904-1953" and "We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960."
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