Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era 006186594X, 9780061865947

Insurgency: Personalities and Politics of the Taft Era 9780231884495

Appraises the historical and geographical roots of the congressional insurgency of the Taft administration, analyzes the

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The Presidents' Wives: Reassessing the Office of First Lady 9781685853198

Robert Watson's groundbreaking study on the presidents' wives proved that the first lady can be an influential

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First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War 9780674029262

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife Varina reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery

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First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War 9780674262560

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife Varina reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery

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Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome 9780300127164

Livia (58 B.C.–A.D. 29)—the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius—wielded

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Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross (Missouri Biography) [1 ed.] 0826216269, 9780826216267, 9780826265050

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FIRST LADY OF UNDERFASHIONS 9781634050296, 1634050290

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Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press 9780062198860, 0062198866

James McGrath Morris’s groundbreaking biography illuminates the life and accomplishments of pioneering journalist Ethel

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The Presidents Wives: The Office of the First Lady in US Politics 9781626378766

Robert Watson's groundbreaking study on the presidents' wives proved that the first lady can be an influential

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The Taft Ranch: A Texas Principality 9780292762848

For fifty years the progressive Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, popularly known as the Taft Ranch, led in the developmen

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