Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era - Softcover

"A titillating-and unquestioningly entertaining-look at an early 20th century political marriage devoid of a mundane moment." -- Time on Florence Harding

"[A] riveting, novelistic bio." -- Entertainment Weekly on Florence Harding

"A pleasing biography. . . . Anthony paints a vivid portrait."--Kirkus Reviews

"Staggeringly well researched, richly sympathetic, and teeming with human interest."--Kirkus Reviews on First Ladies

"Nellie Taft cut a bold swath through the remnants of Victorian sensibility."--Dayton Daily News

"Biographer gives credit to lesser-known first lady, Nellie Taft."--Columbus Dispatch

"A much needed examination of the ways presidential wives influenced husbands, domestic politics, and foreign policy."--San Francisco Chronicle on First Ladies

"A titillating--and unquestioningly entertaining--look at an early 20th century political marriage devoid of a mundane moment."--Time on Florence Harding

"Florence Harding's story is absorbing, poignant and dramatic."--Washington Post Book World on Florence Harding

"[A] riveting, novelistic bio."--Entertainment Weekly on Florence Harding

A portrait of the early twentieth-century First Lady describes her bold determination to fulfill a then-untraditional political and public role at the side of her husband, noting her part in the emergence of the Progressive era. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.