Title: American first ladies /
Authors: Watson, Robert P.,
Date: 2015
Publisher: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ;
Physical description: xii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: E
Abstract: Provides a biographical essay on each of the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, 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: [Names inverted from appearance on contents page] Abigail Adams -- Louisa Adams -- Ellen Arthur -- Barbara Bush -- Laura Bush -- Rosalynn Carter -- Frances Cleveland -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Grace Coolidge -- Mamie Eisenhower -- Abigail Fillmore -- Betty Ford -- Lucretia Garfield -- Julia Grant -- Florence Harding -- Anna Harrison -- Caroline Harrison -- Lucy Hayes -- Lou Hoover -- Rachel Jackson -- Martha Jefferson -- Eliza Johnson -- Lady Bird Johnson -- Jacqueline Kennedy -- Harriett Lane -- Mary Lincoln -- Ida McKinley -- Dolley Madison -- Elizabeth Monroe -- Pat Nixon -- Michelle Obama -- Jane Pierce -- Sarah Polk -- Patsy Jefferson Randolph -- Nancy Reagan -- Edith Roosevelt -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Helen Taft -- Margaret Taylor -- Bess Truman -- Julia Tyler -- Letitia Tyler -- Angelica Singleton Van Buren -- Hannah Van Buren -- Martha Washington -- Edith Wilson -- Ellen Wilson.
Subject headings (LCSH): 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