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First Mothers
In this highly acclaimed book, Bonnie Angelo celebrates a group of remarkable women who played a pivotal role in developing the characters of the modern American presidents — their mothers. Angelo, a veteran reporter and writer for TIME magazine, explores the lives, thoughts and feelings of these women who so influenced the twentieth century’s most powerful leaders. From the aristocratic and formidable Sara Delano Roosevelt to diehard Democrat Martha Truman, from stoic Hannah Milhous Nixon to the hard-living Virginia Clinton Kelly, First Mothers is an in-depth look at the special mother-son relationship that has nurtured America’s presidents and helped them to achieve great things. A v...
Our Presidents and Their Mothers (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Our Presidents and Their Mothers It seems to me that a work treating thus inti mately with the mother influence upon great Ameri cans is particularly appropriate at this time now, when hundreds and thousands Of mothers through out the land have made such heroic sacrifices and have exhibited such marked patriotism. The hand that rocks the cradle has ruled our nation before, and rules it today. Then, as now, it was not autocratic rule. Then, as now, it was the ia spiration of true democracy and the course chiefly responsible for everything that we are, and every thing that we hope to be. Mothers - thank God for them! May their sweetness and tender ness forever sway temporal powe...
The Presidents' Mothers
A very good book on president's mothers--and what they thought of their sons as children and presidents.
Faith of Our Mothers
A collection of essays in which the author examines what is known about the mothers of the forty-three American presidents, from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush, and discusses their nearly unanimous common qualities of faith--both in their sons and in God.
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
Now in paperback, the stories of the mothers of 11 presidents of the 20th century are told with personal anecdotes and interviews with living relatives. A national bestseller in hardcover. 16-page photo insert.
The Raising of a President
A look at the parents of the American presidents, full of facts and anecdotes as well as psychological profiles based on Wead's findings. He analyzes the types of families into which our presidents were born, and sheds a fascinating light on how their destinies were shaped during childhood. Using papers and letters, as well as private conversations and interviews with six presidents and first ladies, Wead focuses on the early life of George Washington; John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and the making of our nation's first political empire; the humble beginnings of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln; the privileged upbringing of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the ambitious rise of John Fitzgerald Kennedy; and the "quiet dynasty" led by George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush.
OUR PRESIDENTS MOTHERS WIVES &
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