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Faith Of Our Mothers: The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush
2001, W.B. Eerdmans
in English
0802849261 9780802849267
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Machine generated contents note: 1. The Perplexing Mary Ball Washington
2. The Missing Mothers of Virginia
Jane Jefferson, Nelly Madison, Elizabeth Monroe
3. Players in the "Great Theatre of Life"
Susanna and Abigail Adams
4. Immigrants and Pioneers
Elizabeth Jackson, Maria Van Buren,
Elizabeth Harrison, Mary Tyler, Jane Polk, Sarah Taylor
5. Mothers of the Ante-bellum Presidents
Phoebe Fillmore, Anna Pierce, Elizabeth Buchanan
6. "All That I AmI Get from My Angel Mother"
Nancy and Sarah Lincoln
7. Scarcity and Silence
Mary Johnson, Hannah Grant
8. Pre-War Mothers, Post-War Sons
Sophia Hayes, Eliza Garfield, Malvina Arthur
9. Family Values in the Nineteenth Century
Ann Cleveland, Elizabeth Harrison, Nancy McKinley
10. "I Do Not Believe We Can Love Our Children Too Much"
Martha Roosevelt, Louisa Taft, Jessie Wilson
11. "It Always Seemed That the Boy I Lost Was Her Image"
Phoebe Harding Victoria Coolidge, Hulda Hoover
12. Smothering Mothering
Sara Roosevelt
13. From the Heart of America
Martha Truman, Ida Eisenhower
14. Maternal Ambition
Rose Kennedy, Rebekah Johnson
15. "My Mother Was a Saint"
Hannah Nixon, Dorothy Ford
16. Overcoming the Odds
Lillian Carter, Nelle Reagan, Virginia Kelley
17. Continuity and Change
Dorothy and Barbara Bush
In Summation: The Better Angels of Their Nature
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-385) and index.
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