Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Constitution and By-laws; Vol. 1, 1901
Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Proceedings ...
Author: Maine Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Army Lineage Book
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Lady First
Author: Amy S. GreenbergPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804173443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk—a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism. While the Women’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 biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah’s story into vivid focus. We see Sarah as the daughter of a frontiersman who raised her to discuss politics and business with men; we see the savvy and charm she brandished in order to help her brilliant but unlikeable husband, James K. Polk, ascend to the White House. We watch as she exercises truly extraordinary power as First Lady: quietly manipulating elected officials, shaping foreign policy, and directing a campaign in support of America’s expansionist war against Mexico. And we meet many of the enslaved men and women whose difficult labor made Sarah’s political success possible. Sarah Polk’s life spanned nearly the entirety of the nineteenth-century. But her own legacy, which profoundly transformed the South, continues to endure. Comprehensive, nuanced, and brimming with invaluable insight, Lady First is a revelation of our twelfth First Lady’s complex but essential part in American feminism.
Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society
Author: Maine Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Author: Daughters of the American RevolutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Register of Kentucky State Historical Society
Author: Kentucky Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Author: Daughters of the American RevolutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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