American first ladies / editor, Robert P. Watson.

Profiles First Ladies from Martha Washington to Laura Bush, providing portraits and describing each woman's early life, marriage and family, years as First Lady, and legacy; and also includes articles on the roles that the First Lady plays, an annotated bibliography, and contact information for...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Watson, Robert P., 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pasadena, California : Salem Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Martha Washington
  • Abigail Adams
  • Martha Jefferson and Patsy Jefferson Randolph
  • Dolley Madison
  • Elizabeth Monroe
  • Louisa Adams
  • Rachel Jackson
  • Hannah Van Buren and Angelica Singleton Van Buren
  • Anna Harrison
  • Letitia Tyler
  • Julia Tyler
  • Sarah Polk
  • Margaret Taylor
  • Abigail Fillmore
  • Jane Pierce
  • Harriet Lane
  • Mary Lincoln
  • Eliza Johnson
  • Julia Grant
  • Lucy Hayes
  • Lucretia Garfield
  • Ellen Arthur
  • Frances Cleveland
  • Caroline Harrison
  • Ida McKinley
  • Edith Roosevelt
  • Helen Taft
  • Ellen Wilson
  • Edith Wilson
  • Florence Harding
  • Grace Coolidge
  • Lou Hoover
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Bess Truman
  • Mamie Eisenhower
  • Jacqueline Kennedy
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • Pat Nixon
  • Betty Ford
  • Rosalynn Carter
  • Nancy Reagan
  • Barbara Bush
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Laura Bush
  • Presidential partners
  • White House manager
  • Nation's social hostess
  • First ladies and social causes
  • First ladies and presidential campaigns
  • First ladies and policy issues
  • First ladies and legislative activism
  • Family life in the White House
  • Other White House hostesses.