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White House profile : a social history of the White House, its occupants and its festivities

Title: White House profile : a social history of the White House, its occupants and its festivities / by Bess Furman.
Author: Furman, Bess, 1894-1969.
Publication: Indianapolis ; New York : Bobbs-Merrill Co., ©1951.

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Description

368 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
Biographies.
Biographie.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 345-356.

Contents

Off to a good start ... John Adams -- Master of the Mansion ... Jefferson -- The one and only Dolley ... Madison -- On a footing of form and ceremony ... Monroe, John Quincy Adams -- The people take over ... Jackson -- Gallant politicians and young hostesses ... Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler -- The hard-working polks -- Languishing ladies and Miss Lane ... Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan -- Saddest of them all ... Lincoln -- Man of courage ... Johnson -- Bigger place for the new woman ... Grant, Hayes, Garfield -- Era of elegance ... Arthur, Cleveland -- Not so gay nineties ... Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley -- Square deal and square peg ... Theodore Roosevelt, Taft -- a war won and a league lost ... Wilson -- Era of illusion ... Harding, Coolidge, Hoover -- New deal and World War II ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- New Mansion in the old mold ... Truman.

LCCN

51014153

OCLC

ocm01345008
1345008
SCSB-142670

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library