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A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Catherine Adams
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Description for A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
Hardback. Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words. Num Pages: 375 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 800.
Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. But her life and influence merited this extraordinary tribute. She had been first the daughter-in-law and then the wife of a president. She had assisted her husband as a diplomat at three of the major capitals of Europe. She had served as a leading hostess and significant figure in Washington for three decades. And yet, a century and a half later, she is barely remembered. A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams seeks to correct that oversight ... Read more
Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. But her life and influence merited this extraordinary tribute. She had been first the daughter-in-law and then the wife of a president. She had assisted her husband as a diplomat at three of the major capitals of Europe. She had served as a leading hostess and significant figure in Washington for three decades. And yet, a century and a half later, she is barely remembered. A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams seeks to correct that oversight ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
375
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674048010
SKU
V9780674048010
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About Louisa Catherine Adams
Margaret A. Hogan is an independent scholar and former editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. C. James Taylor is former Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Reviews for A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
Allow[s] Louisa to emerge as a subject herself. In the process, she also becomes newly convincing as a source, especially in connection with her husband's complicated, grinding ambition, a quality she discerned beneath his cloak of rectitude.
(05/05/2014) A fine new sampling of Louisa's writings...Louisa Adams was highly intelligent, well educated, and well read. She was a talented writer, as ... Read more
(05/05/2014) A fine new sampling of Louisa's writings...Louisa Adams was highly intelligent, well educated, and well read. She was a talented writer, as ... Read more