01294cam a2200277 4500 1171436190 TxAuBib 20240318120000.0 240318s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593440285 hardback $28.00 0593440285 hardback $28.00 TxAuBib Benedict, Marie. The first ladies / Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. New York : Berkley, 2023. 389 p. ; 25 cm. A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world. This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable, passionate, and committed women, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement. 20240318. Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Fiction. Bethune, Mary McLeod 1875-1955 Fiction. Presidents' spouses Fiction. Civil rights workers Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Murray, Victoria Christopher, author. TXMOO