"Papers presented at the Herbert Hoover centennial seminars, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, West Branch, Iowa, February and October 1974." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biographies and portraits of forty-one wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington through Nancy Reagan.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-281) and index.
Contents: Protection of home and hearth: sex outside marriage -- Crime that had no name: narratives of gay and lesbian sex -- Of concubine and mistress -- Business of sex -- Promise her…
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-366) and index. Contents: The romance of Jefferson and Jesus -- Education of a hero, 1860-1890 -- Speaker in the house, 1891-1894 -- In the armor of a righteous cause, 1895-1896 -- A republic, not an…