The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a FamilySt. Martin's Publishing Group, 17 сент. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 304 From the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, a nation divided by savage conflict confronted the new president. But what many don't know was that within the White House's walls, the Lincoln's family would soon find itself suffering turmoil mirroring that of the nation he led. |
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... wife, Mary, on the other hand, triumphant in her new self-styled status as “Madam President,” decided on the spot she was going to make this dismal place fit for its role as the chief executive's home. But what husband and wife did ...
... wife but, as protocol demanded, with Washington's Mayor James G. Berret. The odd though traditional arrangement left Mary to find her own partner for the grandest dance of the evening, and she coquettishly chose Stephen Douglas, who had ...
... kind of head covering, this morning Mary had done up her hair with a lace cap neatly pinned on top of it. The single invariable job a president's wife performed in the nineteenth century was to attractively complement her husband while the.
... wife. lf circumstances dictated, she would, of course, serve as nurturing mother to the president's children, though in the midnineteenth century presidential children were, before the Lincoln boys arrived, already adults themselves ...
... wife from his last child by his second wife. Lost in a crowded field of a dozen siblings and half siblings, by the time she was an adolescent Mary wanted nothing so much as to escape her crowded home and an uncongenial stepmother, whose ...
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THREE Calamity in War Calamity at Home | |
FOUR Death in the White House | |
SEVEN An Unfinished Work | |
EPILOGUE The Flying Dutchman | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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