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Nov 18 2018
The Washington Post looks at First Lady memoirs past and present, starting with Julia Grant:
When former first lady Julia Grant finished her memoir in 1899, with the help of one Mark Twain, she couldn’t find a publisher for it.
"My book, on which I have built so many castles, is by the critics pronounced too near, too close to the private life of [her husband], and I thought this was just what was wanted. You can well imagine my great disappointment and sorrow," the widow of Ulysses S. Grant wrote in a letter to a friend...
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