Take women's history for a walk, to the gym, or for a drive: download audiobooks and take women's history with you. These books are all biographies or autobiographies of American First Ladies. An update on the books on tape concept, these books can be downloaded to your computer, then played as you work or uploaded to an MP3 player or burned to a CD.
1. Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Autobiography of the former First Lady who was elected Senator from New York. Written in 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton details her background and her role in the White House, and includes her thoughts on the sex scandal surrounding her husband during his Presidency.2. Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1933
by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Eleanor Roosevelt's life, through her husband's first election as President of the United States, is not as well known as her accomplishments and activities as First Lady and after her husband's death. Blanche Wiesen Cook's telling of Eleanor Roosevelt's story brings her alive -- her early activism, her difficult relationship with a difficult mother-in-law, her marriage, and her role as a political wife. Abridged: 6 hours.3. Laura: America's First Lady, First Mother
by Antonia Felix. Based on interviews, the 2002 biography of First Lady Laura Bush is more tribute than objective biography. Abridged: 2 hours and 25 minutes.4. Nancy: A Portrait of My Years with Nancy Reagan
by Michael K. Deaver. Deaver depicts Nancy Reagan's personal life from the perspective of an intimate friend of many years. Unabridged; 5 hours and 24 minutes.5. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot
by J. Randy Taraborrelli. Jackie Kennedy was a First Lady, Joan and Ethel Kennedy both the wives of would-be Presidents. Taraborrelli's book details the lives of three very different women, tied together by their status as brides of Kennedy brothers, all in politics and in the public eye. Abridged: 5 hours and 57 minutes.6. Kindred Souls: The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and David Gurewitsch
by Edna P. Gurewitsch. David Gurewitsch's wife tells the story of the complicated relationship of the First Lady and her physician -- including their travels together and the townhouse they owned together. The author had the advantage of access to Dr. Gurewitsch's journals and other memorabilia. Unabridged: 10 hours and 37 minutes.7. No Ordinary Time
by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The story of an unusual political partnership: Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, on the home front during World War II. Abridged: 6 hours. Also:
Unabridged: 38 hours and 37 minutes.
8. Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. A 2004 biography of former First Lady, Senator Hillary Clinton. The book portrays Clinton as a power-hungry, deceptive radical. Unabridged: 6 hours and 19 minutes.
