Book

American first ladies / editor, Robert P. Watson.

Watson, Robert P., 1962- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0893560707 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: xix, 439, xi p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-439) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.