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Author | : Catherine Allgor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429980558 |
First Lady of the United States and America's "Queen of Hearts," Dolley Madison fashioned an unofficial role for herself in the new administration of the United States, helping to answer the nation's need for ceremony and leaving footprints for centuries of presidential wives to follow. Assisting her husband, James Madison, she helped to promote national unity, modeling a political behavior that stressed civility and empathy. Together, their approach fueled bipartisanship in a country still assembling a political identity. About the Lives of American Women series: selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a women's life that is emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read', featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader.
Author | : Bruce Chadwick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1616148357 |
In this comprehensive biography of James and Dolley Madison, historian Bruce Chadwick introduces the reader to America's first power couple. Using newly uncovered troves of letters at the University of Virginia, Chadwick has been able to reconstruct the details of the Madisons' personal and political lives. Based on this archive, the author argues that our fourth president--the architect of the Constitution--owed much of his success to the political savvy of his wife. And Dolley, through her many social skills, created the dynamic role of First Lady that we know today. Within the new historical papers are remarkable stories of Dolley's parties and her backdoor politicking. Their letters show Madison not as a boring, average president--as some historians have maintained--but as a vibrant, tough leader, a very successful commander in chief who changed America. These documents also help to paint a searing portrait of the Madisons' struggles with their irresponsible son and outline how their lifelong funding of his whims brought about their own demise. Blending the personal and the political, this is a fascinating portrait of a couple whose life together contributed so much to the future course of our nation.
Author | : Catherine Allgor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2006-04-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0805073272 |
The post-Revolutionary era comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early American republic--and its master political architect.
Author | : Libby Carty McNamee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781732220249 |
Dolley Madison is the target when America declares war on Great Britain and enemy soldiers march into Washington City. How can she save the United States and herself?
Author | : Don Brown |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2007-10-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547349041 |
Dolley was a farm girl who became a fine first lady when she married James Madison. She wore beautiful dresses, decorated her home, and threw lavish parties. Everyone talked about Dolley, and everyone loved her, too. Then war arrived at her doorstep, and Dolley had to meet challenges greater than she’d ever known. So Dolley did one thing she thought might make a difference: she saved George Washington. Not the man himself, but a portrait of him, which would surely have been destroyed by English soldiers. Don Brown once again deftly tells a little known story about a woman who made a significant contribution to American history.
Author | : Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Dolley Madison left behind no written account of her life, so her niece Mary Cutts' memoir is the closest we have to Madison's autobiographical voice. With this annotated transcription of both drafts of the memoir, this book offers a contextualized version of this crucial piece of Founding-era biography. An opening essay presents the memoir not only as a source for information on Madison herself, but also as a prime example of a nineteenth-century woman, Mary Cutts, making a bid for historical significance. Other essays evaluate the historical uses and misuses of the document for understanding Dolley's life and supply background information on Mary. The questions raised by Cutts's memoir are intriguing: Given that most of the story takes place before Cutts's birth, whose voice are we hearing? What are we to make of the lies and omissions along the way? What family secrets is Cutts hiding, and whose are they?
Author | : Jane Hampton Cook |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2016-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1621575497 |
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Author | : Richard N. Côté |
Publisher | : Corinthian Books |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781929175093 |
Based on more than two thousand of Dolley Payne Todd Madison's letters and accompanied by period illustrations, offers a biography of the popular First Lady who was renowned as a hostess and heroine of the War of 1812.
Author | : Dolley Madison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Presidents' spouses |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Holly Cowan Shulman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Presidents' spouses |
ISBN | : |
Surveys the life of First Lady Dolley Madison, wife of the fourth president, who was renowned as a hostess, a lady of fashion, and a heroine of the War of 1812.