Books of Federal government--United States--History
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Helen Taft
By Dorothy SchneiderGiven the opportunity to run things, Helen Herron Taft excelled, as she possessed high intelligence, energy, and zest.
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Bess Truman
By Dorothy SchneiderThrough the many years Bess Truman lived in the nation's;capital as the wife of Harry S. Truman.
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Lucretia Garfield
By Dorothy SchneiderLucretia Rudolph Garfield's religion taught her to live a moral life, and her times taught her that as a woman she was the moral lynchpin of her family, responsible for their good conduct.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
By Dorothy SchneiderHaving grown up in luxury, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis learned to value money and to believe that women get power through the men they attract.
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Betty Ford
By Dorothy SchneiderDuring the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s, many women in their 40s and 50s either recoiled from or gladly embraced the changes happening around them.
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Anna Harrison
By Dorothy SchneiderAs a pioneer woman and the wife of a soldier, Anna Harrison knew considerable hardship throughout most of her life, including the deaths of all but one of her 10 children and long periods spent bearing family responsibilities a.
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Caroline Harrison
By Dorothy SchneiderA mistress of domestic skills who received an extraordinarily good education for women of her day, Caroline Scott Harrison;reflected and contributed to the changing lifestyles of American women all throughout her life, includin.
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Lady Bird Johnson
By Dorothy SchneiderThe daughter of a hard-working, self-made father and a mother who advocated women's suffrage and rights for blacks, Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson.
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Nancy Reagan
By Dorothy SchneiderActor Jimmy Stewart once remarked, "If Ronnie [Reagan] had married Nancy at the time he married Jane Wyman, he would have won an Oscar.
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Lou Hoover
By Dorothy SchneiderLou Hoover studied geology and was a mining engineer before her husband Herbert Hoover became president.
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Lucy Hayes
By Dorothy SchneiderThe first wife of a president to hold a college degree, Lucy Webb Hayes.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
By Dorothy SchneiderAn independent and sometimes intimidating force in the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton was a controversial public figure even before becoming first lady.
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Julia Grant
By Dorothy SchneiderJulia Dent Grant led a more independent, daring, and self-reliant life than other women of her time.
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Elizabeth Monroe
By Dorothy SchneiderElizabeth Kortright Monroe was a privileged young woman;of great beauty. As such, many of her friends thought she was marrying beneath her when she chose James Monroe as her husband, but they could never be more wrong.
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Ida McKinley
By Dorothy SchneiderAlthough trained in business, the illness Ida Saxton McKinley (wife of William McKinley) suffered throughout much of her life.
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Ellen Wilson
By Dorothy SchneiderAlthough her time as first lady was brief, Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was the first wife of a president.
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Andrew Jackson
By Neil HamiltonAndrew Jackson held great appeal to the average voter. Born in the backwoods of the South, he portrayed himself as a common man fighting an entrenched elite.
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Martin Van Buren
By Neil HamiltonWhen Andrew Jackson was president, Martin Van Buren was the man behind the scenes, turning the Democratic Party into a modern campaign organization and developing the "spoils" system to increase the Jackson administration's str.
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Mamie Eisenhower
By Dorothy SchneiderMamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower grew up wealthy, with servants to attend to the household chores, a personal maid, and beaux from the best families of Denver escorting her to parties and outings.
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Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections
By Larry SabatoEncyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections,;Third Edition;provides comprehensive coverage of the American election process and its political parties.