Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1Katherine A. S. Sibley
1 Martha Washington 6Robert P. Watson
2 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 20Margaret A. Hogan
3 Martha Jefferson Randolph, First Daughter 38Billy L. Wayson
4 James and Dolley Madison and the Quest for Unity 59Catherine Allgor
5 Elizabeth Monroe 75Finn Pollard
6 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 89Catherine Allgor, Margery M. Heffron and Amanda Mathews Norton
7 Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson: A Reluctant First Lady 111Christina Mune
8 Angelica Singleton Van Buren, First Lady for a Widower 129John F. Marszalek
9 The Ladies of Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too 142Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy
10 Sarah Polk: Ideas of Her Own 159Valerie Palmer-Mehta
11 Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce: Three Antebellum Presidents’ Ladies 176Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker-Estrada
12 Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston 197Thomas J. Balcerski
13 Mary Todd Lincoln 214William D. Pederson
14 Eliza McCardle Johnson and Julia Dent Grant 230Pamela K. Sanfilippo
15 Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, and Mary Arthur McElroy 247Benjamin T. Arrington
16 Rose Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Mary McKee 265Merry Ellen Scofield
17 Ida McKinley: A Life of Contrasts 283Louie P. Gallo
18 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt: The Victorian Modern First Lady 298Catherine Forslund
19 Helen Herron Taft: The Forgotten Impact of a Memorable First Lady 320Rafaele Fierro
20 Ellen Axson Wilson 339Lisa M. Burns
21 Edith Wilson: The First Lady in Charge 357Barbara Klaczynska
22 Florence Kling Harding: Celebrity and Activist 379Katherine A. S. Sibley
23 Grace Coolidge 404Teri Finneman
24 The Historiography of Lou Henry Hoover 423Nancy Beck Young
25 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life before and during the White House Years 439Maurine H. Beasley
26 Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World 459Maurine H. Beasley
27 Elizabeth Virginia “Bess” Wallace Truman 476Michael J. Devine
28 Overrated Pleasures and Underrated Treasures: Mamie Eisenhower, a Bridge between First Lady Archetypes 492Anthony Rama Maravillas
29 Jacqueline Kennedy 503Katherine Jellison
30 Lady Bird Johnson 517Lisa M. Burns
31 An Unlikely First Lady: Pat Nixon 535Mary C. Brennan
32 Betty Ford: “When Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary” 552Myra G. Gutin
33 Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter 569Kristin L. Ahlberg
34 Nancy Reagan 585Jason Roberts
35 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, I: 1925–1988 604Diana B. Carlin
36 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, II: 1988–2015 621Diana B. Carlin
37 Hillary Rodham Clinton 635Janette Kenner Muir
38 Laura Welch Bush: Strength and Serenity in Turbulent Times 653Anita McBride
39 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, I 677Nancy Kegan Smith and Diana B. Carlin
40 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, II 696Diana B. Carlin and Nancy Kegan Smith
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