TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,Louisa Catherine
AU  - Hogan,Margaret A.
AU  - Taylor,C.James
AU  - Bush,Laura
TI  - A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
SN  - 9780674369276
AV  - E377 
U1  - 973.55092 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Adams, Louisa Catherine,-1775-1852
KW  - Adams, John Quincy,-1767-1848
KW  - Presidents' spouses-United States-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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