i'm thinking here of bernstein on hillary clinton, ronald kessler and laura bush.peter slevin and michelle obama, for example, susan page interviewed barbara bush and darlene superville interviewed, jill biden for their books. but first ladies often seem decline interviews, especially when they have their own memoirs to pen. so in 1994, barbara bush published in the 2000. hillary clinton. barbara bush. laura bush. michelle obama and joe biden have all written one or more books. these later first ladies have been more forthcoming about the substance of their work. possibly they feel they're being taken more because of the growth of the field and our era. i want to remind us very briefly here that another marker of heightened in first lady studies is their increased appearance in the media. live fictional and documentary. these, of course, are always of varying qualities and levels of accuracy. scholars know that first ladies have had a long history with non print media back to early radio broadcast and television shows, but only sporadically. over time, their presen