A companion to first ladies

Content: Notes on Contributors viii    Acknowledgements xiv    Introduction 1 Katherine A. S. Sibley    1 Martha Washington 6 Robert P. Watson    2 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 20 Margaret A. Hogan    3 Martha Jefferson Randolph, First Daughter 38 Billy L. Wayson    4 James and Dolley Madison and the Quest for Unity 59 Catherine Allgor    5 Elizabeth Monroe 75 Finn Pollard    6 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 89 Catherine Allgor, Margery M. Heffron and Amanda Mathews Norton    7 Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson: A Reluctant First Lady 111 Christina Mune    8 Angelica Singleton Van Buren, First Lady for a Widower 129 John F. Marszalek    9 The Ladies of Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too 142 Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy    10 Sarah Polk: Ideas of Her Own 159 Valerie Palmer  -Mehta    11 Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce: Three Antebellum Presidents    Ladies 176 Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker  -Estrada    12 Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston 197 Thomas J. Balcerski    13 Mary Todd Lincoln 214 William D. Pederson    14 Eliza McCardle Johnson and Julia Dent Grant 230 Pamela K. Sanfilippo    15 Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, and Mary Arthur McElroy 247 Benjamin T. Arrington    16 Rose Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Mary McKee 265 Merry Ellen Scofield    17 Ida McKinley: A Life of Contrasts 283 Louie P. Gallo    18 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt: The Victorian Modern First Lady 298 Catherine Forslund    19 Helen Herron Taft: The Forgotten Impact of a Memorable First Lady 320 Rafaele Fierro    20 Ellen Axson Wilson 339 Lisa M. Burns    21 Edith Wilson: The First Lady in Charge 357 Barbara Klaczynska    22 Florence Kling Harding: Celebrity and Activist 379 Katherine A. S. Sibley    23 Grace Coolidge 404 Teri Finneman    24 The Historiography of Lou Henry Hoover 423 Nancy Beck Young    25 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life before and during the White House Years 439 Maurine H. Beasley    26 Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World 459 Maurine H. Beasley    27 Elizabeth Virginia    Bess    Wallace Truman 476 Michael J. Devine    28 Overrated Pleasures and Underrated Treasures: Mamie Eisenhower, a Bridge between First Lady Archetypes 492 Anthony Rama Maravillas    29 Jacqueline Kennedy 503 Katherine Jellison    30 Lady Bird Johnson 517 Lisa M. Burns    31 An Unlikely First Lady: Pat Nixon 535 Mary C. Brennan    32 Betty Ford:    When Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary    552 Myra G. Gutin    33 Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter 569 Kristin L. Ahlberg    34 Nancy Reagan 585 Jason Roberts    35 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, I: 1925   1988 604 Diana B. Carlin    36 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, II: 1988   2015 621 Diana B. Carlin    37 Hillary Rodham Clinton 635 Janette Kenner Muir    38 Laura Welch Bush: Strength and Serenity in Turbulent Times 653 Anita McBride    39 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, I 677 Nancy Kegan Smith and Diana B. Carlin    40 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, II 696 Diana B. Carlin and Nancy Kegan Smith    Index 716