Title: From classroom to White House : the presidents and first ladies as students and teachers /
Authors: Longo, James McMurtry.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Presidents United States Biography; Presidents Education United States.; Presidents' spouses United States Biography; Presidents' spouses Education United States.
Abstract: "President Eisenhower, who was not always the best student, once wrote, "One cannot always read a man's future in the record of his younger days." Indeed, this review of the classroom experiences of presidents and first ladies from George and Martha Washington to Barack and Michelle Obama reveals that few made model students"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Martha Dandridge Custis and George Washington : "illiterate, unlearned and unread" -- Abigail Smith, John Adams, and the remarkable Smith sisters : "we should have more learned women" -- Thomas Jefferson : "the destinies of my life" -- Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison : "three hours out of twenty-four for sleep?" -- Elizabeth Kortright and James Monroe : "my plan of life is now fixed" -- Louisa Johnson and John Quincy Adams : "I hope I grow a better boy" -- Rachel Donelson Robards and Andrew Jackson : "he never stayed throwed" -- Hannah Hoes and Martin Van Buren : "the village academy" -- Anna Symmes and William Henry Harrison : "he can neither breed, plead, nor preach" -- Letitia Christian, Julia Gardiner, and John Tyler : "the rebellious former student, lived and died a rebel" -- Sarah Childress and James K. Polk : "her occupation as a school teacher barred her from social equality" -- Margaret Smith and Zachary Taylor : "of very ordinary capacity" --^