First Ladies of the United States : : A Bibliographical Dictionary /

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

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.

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

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