Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk /
While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Mrs. Polk's 1848
- Blackboard, maps, and globes
- A salon in Washington
- Communications director
- Female politicians
- Mrs. Presidentess
- The power of American women to save their country
- That fine manly lady
- Profit and loss
- Neutral ground
- Influence
- Epilogue: Love makes memory eternal
- The Childress family
- The Polk family.