A companion to first ladies /
"With contributions from nearly 40 scholars, A Companion to First Ladies presents the first comprehensive historiographical overview of First Ladies in US history: the wives - or sometimes the female relatives - who have stood by US Presidents, often as powerful political figures in their own r...
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA :
Wiley Blackwell,
2016.
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| Series: | Wiley Blackwell companions to American history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Katherine A.S. Sibley
- Martha Washington / Robert P. Watson
- Abigail Adams : the life and the biographers / Margaret A. Hogan
- Martha Jefferson Randolph, first daughter / Billy L. Wayson
- James and Dolley Madison and the quest for unity / Catherine Allgor
- Elizabeth Monroe / Finn Pollard
- A monarch in a republic : Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and court culture in early Washington City / Catherine Allgor, Margery M. Heffron and Amanda Mathews Norton
- Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson : a reluctant first lady / Christina Mune
- Angelica Singleton Van Buren, first lady for a widower / John F. Marszalek
- The ladies of Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too / Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy
- Sarah Polk : ideas of her own / Valerie Palmer-Mehta
- Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce : three antebellum presidents' ladies / Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker-Estrada
- Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston / Thomas J. Balcerski
- Mary Todd Lincoln / William D. Pederson
- Eliza McCardle Johnson and Julia Dent Grant / Pamela K. Sanfeilippo
- Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, and Mary Arthur McElroy / Benjamin T. Arrington
- Rose Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Mary McKee / Merry Ellen Scofield
- Ida McKinley : a life of contrasts / Louie P. Gallo
- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt : the Victorian modern first lady / Catherine Forslund
- Helen Herron Taft : the forgotten impact of a memorable first lady / Rafaele Fierro
- Ellen Axson Wilson / Lisa M. Burns
- Edith Wilson : the first lady in charge / Barbara Klaczynska
- Florence Kling Harding : celebrity and activist / Katherine A.S. Sibley
- Grace Coolidge / Teri Finneman
- The historiography of Lou Henry Hoover / Nancy Beck Young
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt : her life before and during the White House years / Maurine H. Beasley
- Eleanor Roosevelt : first lady of the world / Maurine H. Beasley
- Elizabeth Virginia Bess Wallace Truman / Michael J. Devine
- Overrated pleasures and underrated treasures : Mamie Eisenhower, a bridge between first lady archetypes / Anthony Rama Maravillas
- Jacqueline Kennedy / Katherine Jellison
- Lady Bird Johnson / Lisa M. Burns
- An unlikely first lady : Pat Nixon / Mary C. Brennan
- Betty Ford : when ordinary becomes extraordinary / Myra G. Gutin
- Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter / Kristin L. Ahlberg
- Nancy Reagan / Jason Roberts
- Barbara Pierce Bush : choosing a complete life, I : 1925-1988 / Diana B. Carlin
- Barbara Pierce Bush : choosing a complete life, II : 1988-2015 / Diana B. Carlin
- Hillary Rodham Clinton / Janette Kenner Muir
- Laura Welch Bush : strength and serenity in turbulent times / Anita McBride
- First lady Michelle Obama : the American dream endures, I / Nancy Kegan Smith and Diana B. Carlin
- First lady Michelle Obama : the American dream endures, II / Diana B. Carlin and Nancy Kegan Smith.
