Title: American first ladies /
Authors: Watson, Robert P., 1962-
Publisher: Salem Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Presidents' spouses United States Biography; Presidents' spouses United States History.; Presidents' spouses United States Social life and customs.; Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs
Abstract: Provides a biographical essay on each of the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush, including family members who served as First Lady for bachelor or widowed Presidents, and includes overviews of the widely varied roles they have played.
Contents: 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.