Description |
xii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-385) and index. |
Contents |
The perplexing Mary Ball Washington -- The missing mothers of Virginia: Jane Jefferson, Nelly Madison, Elizabeth Monroe -- Players in the "great theatre of life": Susanna and Abigail Adams -- Immigrants and pioneers: Elizabeth Jackson, Maria Van Buren, Elizabeth Harrison, Mary Tyler, Jane Polk, Sarah Taylor -- Mothers of the ante-bellum presidents: Phoebe Fillmore, Anna Pierce, Elizabeth Buchanan -- "All that I am I get from my angel mother": Nancy and Sarah Lincoln -- Scarcity and silence: Mary Johnson, Hannah Grant -- Pre-war mothers, post-war sons: Sophia Hayes, Eliza Garfield, Malvina Arhur -- Family values in the nineteenth century: Ann Cleveland, Elizabeth Harrison, Nancy McKinley -- "I do not believe we can love our children too much": Martha Roosevelt, Louisa Taft, Jessie Wilson -- "It always seemed that the boy I lost was her image": Phoebe Harding, Victoria Coolidge, Hulda Hoover -- Smothering mothering: Sara Roosevelt -- From the heart of America: Martha Truman, Ida Eisenhower -- Maternal ambition: Rose Kennedy, Rebekah Johnson -- "My mother was a saint": Hannah Nixon, Dorothy Ford -- Overcoming the odds: Lillian Carter, Nelle Reagan, Virginia Kelley -- Continuity and change: Dorothy and Barbara Bush. |
Subject |
Mothers of presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Mothers of presidents -- Religious life -- United States.
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ISBN |
0802849261 |
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