Faith of our Mothers : : the Stories of Presidential Mothers From Mary Washington to Barbara Bush
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The perplexing Mary Ball Washington -- The missing mothers of Virginia: Jane Jefferson, Nelly Madison, Elizabeth Monroe -- Players in the "great theatre of life": Susanna and Abigail Adams -- Immigrants and pioneers: Elizabeth Jackson, Maria Van Buren, Elizabeth Harrison, Mary Tyler, Jane Polk, Sarah Taylor -- Mothers of the ante-bellum presidents: Phoebe Fillmore, Anna Pierce, Elizabeth Buchanan -- "All that I am I get from my angel mother": Nancy and Sarah Lincoln -- Scarcity and silence: Mary Johnson, Hannah Grant -- Pre-war mothers, post-war sons: Sophia Hayes, Eliza Garfield, Malvina Arhur -- Family values in the nineteenth century: Ann Cleveland, Elizabeth Harrison, Nancy McKinley -- "I do not believe we can love our children too much": Martha Roosevelt, Louisa Taft, Jessie Wilson -- "It always seemed that the boy I lost was her image": Phoebe Harding, Victoria Coolidge, Hulda Hoover -- Smothering mothering: Sara Roosevelt -- From the heart of America: Martha Truman, Ida Eisenhower -- Maternal ambition: Rose Kennedy, Rebekah Johnson -- "My mother was a saint": Hannah Nixon, Dorothy Ford -- Overcoming the odds: Lillian Carter, Nelle Reagan, Virginia Kelley -- Continuity and change: Dorothy and Barbara Bush.
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PUBLISHED
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: xii, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0802849261 :
SUBJECTS
Mothers of presidents -- Biography.
Mothers of presidents -- Religious life.