First Ladies of the United States : : A Bibliographical Dictionary / / Robert P. Watson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Watson, Robert P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 p.)

First Ladies of the United States is a convenient, well-researched, and thoroughly indexed reference, as well as an insightful account of the lives of forty-three women who have helped shape the course of US history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Powers Behind the Presidency -- 1 Martha Dandridge Custis Washington -- 2 Abigail Smith Adams -- 3 Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Mann and Mary “Polly” Jefferson Eppes -- 4 Dolley Payne Todd Madison -- 5 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe -- 6 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams -- 7 Emily Tennessee Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson -- 8 Angelica Singleton Van Buren -- 9 Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison -- 10 Letitia Christian Tyler -- 11 Julia Gardiner Tyler -- 12 Sarah Childress Polk -- 13 Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor -- 14 Abigail Powers Fillmore -- 15 Jane Means Appleton Pierce -- 16 Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston -- 17 Mary Ann Todd Lincoln -- 18 Eliza McCardle Johnson -- 19 Julia Dent Grant -- 20 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes -- 21 Lucretia Rudolph Garfield -- 22 Mary Arthur McElroy -- 23 Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland -- 24 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison -- 25 Ida Saxton McKinley -- 26 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt -- 27 Helen Herron Taft -- 28 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson -- 29 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson -- 30 Florence Kling Harding -- 31 Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge -- 32 Lou Henry Hoover -- 33 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt -- 34 Elizabeth “Bess” Virginia Wallace Truman -- 35 Mary Geneva “Mamie” Doud Eisenhower -- 36 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis -- 37 Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson -- 38 Thelma Catherine “Pat” Ryan Nixon -- 39 Elizabeth “Betty” Bloomer Ford -- 40 Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter -- 41 Anne Frances “Nancy” Robbins Davis Reagan -- 42 Barbara Pierce Bush -- 43 Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton -- 44 Laura Welch Bush -- Appendix 1 Formal Education of the First Ladies -- Appendix 2 First Ladies’ Birthplaces (by state) -- Appendix 3 Ages on Becoming First Lady -- Appendix 4 First Ladies’ Presidential Marriages (in chronological order of the presidency) -- Appendix 5 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson -- Appendix 6 Rachel Donelson Jackson -- Appendix 7 Hannah Hoes Van Buren -- Appendix 8 Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of First Ladies and Presidents -- Subject Index -- About the Book