The White House
Subtitle: actors and observers
By: edited by William Seale.
Contributors: Seale, William.; White House Historical Association.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- Congresses.; White House (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works.; Presidents -- United States -- Congresses.; Presidents -- United States -- Pictorial works.; Presidents -- United States -- Family -- Congresses.; Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.; Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays derived from papers delivered at a 200th anniversary symposium sponsored by the White House Historical Association.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : like no other house / William Steele; title: Abigail Adams as first lady / Edith B. Gelles; title: Dolley Madison creates the White House / Catherine Allgor; title: The earliest photographs of the White House, 1840s / Clifford Krainik; title: The Lincoln White House : stage for the Republic's survival / Jean Baker; title: Images of the Executive Mansion, 1861-1865 / Betty C. Monkman; title: The gold in the Gilded Age / Richard Norton Smith; title: Frances Benjamin Johnston's White House / William B. Bushong; title: Images of the White House, 1890-1910 / Lydia Barker Tederick; title: Theodore Roosevelt's White House / John Allen Gable; title: Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt : partnership in politics and crises / Allida Black; title: White House news photographers and the White House / Dennis Brack; title: Presidential reality : "if it hasn't happened on television, it hasn't happened" / Martha Joynt Kumar.