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Genre/Form: | Biography illustrated books Illustrated works Biographies Ouvrages illustrés |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lewis L Gould |
ISBN: | 0415930219 9780415930215 081533401X 9780815334019 |
OCLC Number: | 46538475 |
Description: | xviii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : The First Lady as symbol and institution -- Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1789-1797) / Patricia Brady -- Abigail Smith Adams (1797-1801) / Lynn Hudson Parsons -- Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1809-1817) / Holly Cowan Shulman -- Elizabeth Kortright Monroe (1817-1825) / Julie K. Fix -- Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1825-1829) / Lynn Hudson Parsons -- Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (March 4-April 4, 1841) / Nancy Beck Young -- Letitia Christian Tyler (1841-1842) ; Julia Gardiner Tyler (1844-1845) / Melba Porter Hay -- Sarah Childress Polk (1845-1849) / Jayne Crumpler DeFiore -- Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor (1849-1850) / Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. -- Abigail Powers Fillmore (1850-1853) / Kristin Hoganson -- Jane Means Appleton Pierce (1853-1857) / Debbie Mauldin Cottrell -- Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (1861-1865) / Jean H. Baker -- Eliza McCardle Johnson (1865-1869) / Nancy Beck Young -- Julia Dent Grant (1869-1877) / John T. Simon -- Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (1877-1881) / Olive Hoogenboom -- Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (March 4, 1881-September 19, 1881) / Allen Peskin -- Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland (1886-1889, 1893-1897) / Rebecca Edwards. Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison (1889-1892) / Charles W. Calhoun -- Ida Saxton McKinley (1897-1901) / John J. Leffler -- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (1901-1909) ; Helen Herron Taft (1909-1913) / Stacy A. Cordery -- Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (1913-1914) / Shelley Sallee -- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1915-1921) / Lewis L. Gould -- Florence Mabel Kling Harding (1921-1923) / Carl Sferrazza Anthony -- Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (1923-1929) / Kristie Miller -- Lou Henry Hoover (1929-1933) / Nancy Beck Young -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1933-1945) / Allida M. Black -- Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Wallace Truman (1945-1953) / Debbie Mauldin Cottrell -- Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower (1953-1961) / Mark Young -- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1961-1963) / Betty Boyd Caroli -- Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson (1963-1969) / Lewis L. Gould -- Thelma Catherine (Patricia) Ryan Nixon (1969-1974) / Carl Sferrazza Anthony. Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Bloomer Ford (1974-1977) / John Pope -- Nancy (Anne Frances Robbins Davis) Reagan (1981-1989) / James G. Benze, Jr. -- Barbara Pierce Bush (1989-1993) / Myra Gutin -- Hillary Rodham Clinton (1993-2001) ; Laura Welch Bush (2001- ) / Lewis L. Gould. |
Responsibility: | Lewis L. Gould, editor. |
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Abstract:
Containing new or updated material this volume presents thirty-nine interpretative biographical essays on all first ladies, from Martha Washington to America's newest first lady, Laura Bush.
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"From Martha Washington to Laura Bush (pre-term), this work includes 39 extensive biographical essays which interpret the changing role of the First Lady in American history. Far greater depth than most other work of this sort." -- Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Best Reference Titles 2001 selection"If your library needs a good reference book on the first ladies, this would be an obvious choice." -- Against theGrain Read more...
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