Volume 22, Number 14 · September 18, 1975

The Grants

By Gore Vidal
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
edited by John Y. Simon

Putnam's, 346 pp., $12.50

Some years ago a friend remarked to a brand-new President's wife (a woman of unique charm, wit, sensibility, and good grooming) that there was no phrase in our language which so sets the teeth on edge as 'First Lady.'



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