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A Companion to First Ladies

Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History 1. Aufl.

von: Katherine A.S. Sibley
180,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	02.03.2016
ISBN/EAN:	9781118732243
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	760

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This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. <ul> <li>Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century</li> <li>Explores the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands’ legacies</li> <li>Brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived both in popular literature and scholarly debate</li> <li>Provides concise biographical treatments for each First Lady</li> </ul>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgements xiv Introduction 1 Katherine A. S. Sibley 1 Martha Washington 6 Robert P. Watson 2 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 20 Margaret A. Hogan 3 Martha Jefferson Randolph, First Daughter 38 Billy L. Wayson 4 James and Dolley Madison and the Quest for Unity 59 Catherine Allgor 5 Elizabeth Monroe 75 Finn Pollard 6 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 89 Catherine Allgor, Margery M. Heffron and Amanda Mathews Norton 7 Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson: A Reluctant First Lady 111 Christina Mune 8 Angelica Singleton Van Buren, First Lady for a Widower 129 John F. Marszalek 9 The Ladies of Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too 142 Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy 10 Sarah Polk: Ideas of Her Own 159 Valerie Palmer?-Mehta 11 Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce: Three Antebellum Presidents’ Ladies 176 Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker?-Estrada 12 Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston 197 Thomas J. Balcerski 13 Mary Todd Lincoln 214 William D. Pederson 14 Eliza McCardle Johnson and Julia Dent Grant 230 Pamela K. Sanfilippo 15 Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, and Mary Arthur McElroy 247 Benjamin T. Arrington 16 Rose Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Mary McKee 265 Merry Ellen Scofield 17 Ida McKinley: A Life of Contrasts 283 Louie P. Gallo 18 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt: The Victorian Modern First Lady 298 Catherine Forslund 19 Helen Herron Taft: The Forgotten Impact of a Memorable First Lady 320 Rafaele Fierro 20 Ellen Axson Wilson 339 Lisa M. Burns 21 Edith Wilson: The First Lady in Charge 357 Barbara Klaczynska 22 Florence Kling Harding: Celebrity and Activist 379 Katherine A. S. Sibley 23 Grace Coolidge 404 Teri Finneman 24 The Historiography of Lou Henry Hoover 423 Nancy Beck Young 25 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life before and during the White House Years 439 Maurine H. Beasley 26 Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World 459 Maurine H. Beasley 27 Elizabeth Virginia “Bess” Wallace Truman 476 Michael J. Devine 28 Overrated Pleasures and Underrated Treasures: Mamie Eisenhower, a Bridge between First Lady Archetypes 492 Anthony Rama Maravillas 29 Jacqueline Kennedy 503 Katherine Jellison 30 Lady Bird Johnson 517 Lisa M. Burns 31 An Unlikely First Lady: Pat Nixon 535 Mary C. Brennan 32 Betty Ford: “When Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary” 552 Myra G. Gutin 33 Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter 569 Kristin L. Ahlberg 34 Nancy Reagan 585 Jason Roberts 35 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, I: 1925–1988 604 Diana B. Carlin 36 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, II: 1988–2015 621 Diana B. Carlin 37 Hillary Rodham Clinton 635 Janette Kenner Muir 38 Laura Welch Bush: Strength and Serenity in Turbulent Times 653 Anita McBride 39 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, I 677 Nancy Kegan Smith and Diana B. Carlin 40 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, II 696 Diana B. Carlin and Nancy Kegan Smith Index 716

Autorenportrait

Katherine A.S. Sibley is Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University, USA. She is the author of four books, most recently First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (2009) and Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004). She was the editor of A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), and serves on the editorial board of American Communist History as well as on the Historical Advisory Committee for the US State Department.

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With contributions from nearly 40 scholars, A Companion to the First Ladies presents the first comprehensive historiographical overview of the First Ladies, the wives - or sometimes other female relatives - who have stood by U.S. presidents, often as powerful political figures in their own right. The original essays that make up this collection address the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands’ legacies. This volume brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived in both popular literature and scholarly debate. Covering all of the First Ladies through to the present, from Martha Washington through Michelle Obama, it underlines the growing scholarly appreciation for a position that has itself gone through a great deal of evolution since the early American Republic.