TY - BOOK AU - Adams,Louisa Catherine AU - Hogan,Margaret A. AU - Taylor,C.James TI - A traveled first lady: writings of Louisa Catherine Adams SN - 9780674369276 AV - E377 .T738 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Presidents' spouses KW - United States KW - Biography KW - various KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; "All was joy and peace and love": youth --; "An object of general attention": Prussia --; "Had I steped into Noah's ark": United States --; "The savage had been expected": Russia --; "The memory of one, who was": St. Petersburg to Paris --; "The wife of a man of superior talents": Washington, D.C., 1819-1820 --; "I am a very good diplomate": Washington, D.C., 1821-1824 --; "This apparent fate": retirement --; Epilogue: Henry Adams on Louisa; 2; b N2 - Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. Telling the story of her own life, juxtaposed with rich descriptions of European courts, Washington political maneuvers, and the continuing Adams family drama, Louisa Catherine Adams demonstrates why she was once considered one of the preeminent women of the nineteenth century UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=663453&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -