Faith of Our Mothers : The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush,9780802849267

Faith of Our Mothers : The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush

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ISBN13: 9780802849267
ISBN10: 0802849261
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Table of Contents

By Way of Introduction viii
The Perplexing Mary Ball Washington
1(14)
The Missing Mothers of Virginia
15(13)
Jane Jefferson
Nelly Madison
Elizabeth Monroe
Players in the ``Great Theatre of Life''
28(24)
Susanna
Abigail Adams
Immigrants and Pioneers
52(22)
Elizabeth Jackson
Maria Van Buren
Elizabeth Harrison
Mary Tyler
Jane Polk
Sarah Taylor
Mothers of the Ante-bellum Presidents
74(11)
Phoebe Fillmore
Anna Pierce
Elizabeth Buchanan
``All That I Am... I Get from My Angel Mother''
85(13)
Nancy
Sarah Lincoln
Scarcity and Silence
98(13)
Mary Johnson
Hannah Grant
Pre-War Mothers, Post-War Sons
111(22)
Sophia Hayes
Eliza Garfield
Malvina Arthur
Family Values in the Nineteenth Century
133(12)
Ann Cleveland
Elizabeth Harrison
Nancy McKinley
``I Do Not Believe We Can Love Our Children Too Much''
145(29)
Martha Roosevelt
Louisa Taft
Jessie Wilson
``It Always Seemed That the Boy I Lost Was Her Image''
174(17)
Phoebe Harding
Victoria Coolidge
Hulda Hoover
Smothering Mothering
191(15)
Sara Roosevelt
From the Heart of America
206(26)
Martha Truman
Ida Eisenhower
Maternal Ambition
232(42)
Rose Kennedy
Rebekah Johnson
``My Mother Was a Saint''
274(27)
Hannah Nixon
Dorothy Ford
Overcoming the Odds
301(40)
Lillian Carter
Nelle Reagan
Virginia Kelley
Continuity and Change
341(25)
Dorothy
Barbara Bush
In Summation: The Better Angels of Their Nature 366(4)
Bibliography 370(16)
Index 386

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