A traveled first lady : writings of Louisa Catherine Adams / edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor ; foreword by Laura Bush.

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Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775-1852 [Author]

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 388 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780674369276

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E377 .T738 2014

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Contents:

"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.

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	E377.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn871257482

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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.

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.

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