American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy

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ISBN: 9780415930215 | 0415930219
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/29/2001

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This volume presents thirty-nine interpretive biographical essays on all first ladies, from Martha Washington to America's newest First Lady, Laura Bush. This new edition contains updated material on all the living First Ladies and updated bibliographies for each entry, as well as a portrait of the new First Lady.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: The First Lady as Symbol and Institution

Contributors

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

(10)

Patricia Brady

Abigail Smith Adams

(10)

Lynn Hudson Parsons

Dolley Payne Todd Madison

(16)

Holly Cowan Shulman

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

(8)

Julie K. Fix

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams

(12)

Lynn Hudson Parsons

Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison

(8)

Nancy Beck Young

Letitia Christian Tyler

(6)

Melba Porter Hay

Julia Gardiner Tyler

(10)

Melba Porter Hay

Sarah Childress Polk

(10)

Jayne Crumpler DeFiore

Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor

(8)

Thomas H. Appleton Jr.

Abigail Powers Fillmore

(8)

Kristin Hoganson

Jane Means Appleton Pierce

107

(6)

Debbie Mauldin Cottrell

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln

113

(12)

Jean H. Baker

Eliza McCardle Johnson

125

(8)

Nancy Beck Young

Julia Dent Grant

133

(10)

John Y. Simon

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes

143

(10)

Olive Hoogenboom

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield

153

(8)

Allan Peskin

Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland

161

(10)

Rebecca Edwards

Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison

171

(12)

Charles W. Calhoun

Ida Saxton McKinley

183

(12)

John J. Leffler

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

195

(18)

Stacy A. Cordery

Helen Herron Taft

213

(14)

Stacy A. Cordery

Ellen Louise Axson Wilson

227

(10)

Shelley Sallee

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

237

(10)

Lewis L. Gould

Florence Mabel Kling Harding

247

(10)

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge

257

(18)

Kristie Miller

Lou Henry Hoover

275

(10)

Nancy Beck Young

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

285

(18)

Allida M. Black

Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Wallace Truman

303

(8)

Debbie Mauldin Cottrell

Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower

311

(10)

Mark Young

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

321

(14)

Betty Boyd Caroli

Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson

335

(16)

Lewis L. Gould

Thelma Catherine (Patricia) Ryan Nixon

351

(12)

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Bloomer Ford

363

(14)

John Pope

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter

377

(16)

Kathy B. Smith

Nancy (Anne Frances Robbins Davis) Reagan

393

(16)

James G. Benze Jr.

Barbara Pierce Bush

409

(16)

Myra Gutin

Hillary Rodham Clinton

425

(14)

Lewis L. Gould

Laura Welch Bush

439

(8)

Lewis L. Gould

Appendix A: The Siena College First Lady Polls, 1982, 1993

447

(2)

Appendix B: Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-2001

449

(2)

Portrait Credits

451

(2)

Index

453

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