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A Traveled First Lady : Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (439 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674369276
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Traveled First LadyDDC classification:
  • 973.55092
LOC classification:
  • E377
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Laura Bush -- Introduction -- Note to the Reader -- 1. "All Was Joy and Peace and Love": Youth -- 2. "An Object of General Attention": Prussia -- 3. "Had I Steped into Noah's Ark": United States -- 4. "The Savage Had Been Expected": Russia -- 5. "The Memory of One, Who Was": St. Petersburg to Paris -- 6. "The Wife of a Man of Superior Talents": Washington, D.C., 1819-1820 -- 7. "I Am a Very Good Diplomate": Washington, D.C., 1821-1824 -- 8. "This Apparent Fate": Retirement -- Epilogue: Henry Adams on Louisa -- Chronology -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Illustrations.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Laura Bush -- Introduction -- Note to the Reader -- 1. "All Was Joy and Peace and Love": Youth -- 2. "An Object of General Attention": Prussia -- 3. "Had I Steped into Noah's Ark": United States -- 4. "The Savage Had Been Expected": Russia -- 5. "The Memory of One, Who Was": St. Petersburg to Paris -- 6. "The Wife of a Man of Superior Talents": Washington, D.C., 1819-1820 -- 7. "I Am a Very Good Diplomate": Washington, D.C., 1821-1824 -- 8. "This Apparent Fate": Retirement -- Epilogue: Henry Adams on Louisa -- Chronology -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Illustrations.

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.

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