Parlor Politics
Subtitle: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Jeffersonian America)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780813921181
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Central government; Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - General; History: American; History; Sociology; Women in politics; USA; United States - State & Local - General; Political History; Women's Studies - History; 19th century; Entertaining; Upper class women; Washington (D.C.)
First sentence: STORIES ABOUT WOMEN IN POLITICS often carry the promise of behind-the-scenes intrigue, spiced with a whisper of the illicit.