Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison
Author: Dolley Madison
Publisher:
Published: 1896
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13:
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A Slave in the White House
Author: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-01-03
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0230108938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a memoirist.
A Perfect Union
Author: Catherine Allgor
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1429900008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, groundbreaking portrait of the early days of the republic—and the birth of modern politics When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere, which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain in 1812, Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband, James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and by her death in 1849 was the most celebrated person in Washington. And yet, to most Americans, she's best known for saving a portrait from the burning White House, or as the namesake for a line of ice cream. Why did her contemporaries give so much adulation to a lady so little known today? In A Perfect Union, Catherine Allgor reveals that while Dolley's gender prevented her from openly playing politics, those very constraints of womanhood allowed her to construct an American democratic ruling style, and to achieve her husband's political goals. And the way that she did so—by emphasizing cooperation over coercion, building bridges instead of bunkers—has left us with not only an important story about our past but a model for a modern form of politics. Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history.
A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison
Author: Paul Jennings
Publisher:
Published: 1865
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
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Author: Woody Holton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1451607369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Bancroft Prize The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice American Heritage, Best of 2009 In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Award–winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story and of women’s roles in the creation of the republic. Using previously overlooked documents from numerous archives, Abigail Adams shows that the wife of the second president of the United States was far more charismatic and influential than historians have realized. One of the finest writers of her age, Adams passionately campaigned for women’s education, denounced sex discrimination, and matched wits not only with her brilliant husband, John, but with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. When male Patriots ignored her famous appeal to "Remember the Ladies," she accomplished her own personal declaration of independence: Defying centuries of legislation that assigned married women’s property to their husbands, she amassed a fortune in her own name. Adams’s life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral), a cast of characters that included her mother and sisters; Benjamin Franklin and James Lovell, her husband’s bawdy congressional colleagues; Phoebe Abdee, her father’s former slave; her financially naïve husband; and her son John Quincy. At once epic and intimate, Abigail Adams, sheds light on a complicated, fascinating woman, one of the most beloved figures of American history.
Martha Washington
Author: Patricia Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-05-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1101118814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. Here are the able landowner, the indomitable patriot (who faithfully joined her husband each winter at Valley Forge), and the shrewd diplomat and emotional mainstay. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.
James Madison
Author: Ralph Louis Ketcham
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9780813912653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing the vast amount of source material made available in the last 30 years, Professor Ketcham has captured the essential man in his times and in doing so has made him understandable for us in our own day. --Los Angeles Times
The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison
Author: Dolley Madison
Publisher:
Published: 2003-01
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780813921525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA witty, insightful selection of letters from the modest Quaker woman who became First Lady illuminates the life of a graceful, courageous woman who created the mold for a president's wife. (Biography)
James Madison
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2011-09-27
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0465019838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the life and career of the fourth American president, including his work constructing the U.S. Constitution, his role in shaping American politics, his influence on partisan journalism, and his leadership during the War of 1812.
Lincoln
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-04-13
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0307784231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the author.
