Faith Of Our Mothers
Subtitle: The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush
By: Harold I. Gullan.
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Mothers of presidents -- United States -- Biography.; Mothers of presidents -- Religious life -- United States.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Perplexing Mary Ball Washington; title: 2. The Missing Mothers of Virginia; title: Jane Jefferson, Nelly Madison, Elizabeth Monroe; title: 3. Players in the "Great Theatre of Life"; title: Susanna and Abigail Adams; title: 4. Immigrants and Pioneers; title: Elizabeth Jackson, Maria Van Buren,; title: Elizabeth Harrison, Mary Tyler, Jane Polk, Sarah Taylor; title: 5. Mothers of the Ante-bellum Presidents; title: Phoebe Fillmore, Anna Pierce, Elizabeth Buchanan; title: 6. "All That I AmI Get from My Angel Mother"; title: Nancy and Sarah Lincoln; title: 7. Scarcity and Silence; title: Mary Johnson, Hannah Grant; title: 8. Pre-War Mothers, Post-War Sons; title: Sophia Hayes, Eliza Garfield, Malvina Arthur; title: 9. Family Values in the Nineteenth Century; title: Ann Cleveland, Elizabeth Harrison, Nancy McKinley; title: 10. "I Do Not Believe We Can Love Our Children Too Much"; title: Martha Roosevelt, Louisa Taft, Jessie Wilson; title: 11. "It Always Seemed That the Boy I Lost Was Her Image"; title: Phoebe Harding Victoria Coolidge, Hulda Hoover; title: 12. Smothering Mothering; title: Sara Roosevelt; title: 13. From the Heart of America; title: Martha Truman, Ida Eisenhower; title: 14. Maternal Ambition; title: Rose Kennedy, Rebekah Johnson; title: 15. "My Mother Was a Saint"; title: Hannah Nixon, Dorothy Ford; title: 16. Overcoming the Odds; title: Lillian Carter, Nelle Reagan, Virginia Kelley; title: 17. Continuity and Change; title: Dorothy and Barbara Bush; title: In Summation: The Better Angels of Their Nature; title: Bibliography; title: Index.