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1 online resource (xiii, 419 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction: Catherine Allgor and Katherine A.S. Sibley -- Part I: From the Early Republic through late Reconstruction. Martha Washington: southern influences in shaping an institution / Diana Bartelli Carlin; Dolley Madison and the making of a Capital etiquette / Marry Ellen Scofield; Elizabeth Kortright Monroe: La Belle Americaine / Mary Stockwell; Reclamation of a First Lady: Julia Gardiner Tyler's pursuit of a Federal government pension / Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy; A First Lady, a funeral, and a legacy: press coverage of the death of Sarah Polk / Teri Finneman; Mary Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckly, and the perils of White House friendship / Sylvia D. Hoffert; Southern woman, Republican partisan: Mary Lincoln's wartime identity / Laura Mammina; Press and propaganda: examining war coverage of the Confederate First Lady / Teri Finneman; Eliza Johnson, First Lady of the Tennessee hill country / John F. Marszalek; Julia Dent Grant: aspiring southerner / Louie P. Gallo; Southern roots of activism / Nancy Beck Young -- Part II: From the Progressive Era to the present century. Ellen Axson Wilson: a progressive southern First Lady / Lisa M. Burns; Edith Bolling Wilson: a "southern" new woman / Valerie Palmer-Mehta; Lady Bird Johnson: First Lady of Deeds / Nancy Kegan Smith; Diplomacy first: Rosalynn Carter as Diplomat / Kristin L. Ahlberg; The Lone Star Yankee as First Lady: Barbara Bush of Texas / Myra G. Gutin; A southern primer: Hillary goes to Arkansas / Janette Kenner Muir; Laura Bush: Texan by nature / Anita B. McBride. |
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9780700630448 (electronic book) |
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0700630449 (electronic book) |
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9780700630431 |
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0700630430 |
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