Parlor Politics In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government

Name: Parlor Politics In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
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ISBN: 9780813921181

ISBN-10: 081392118X

ISBN-13: 9780813921181

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Catherine Allgor

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Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women used social events and the private sphere to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government.

Book details

List price: $18.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 299
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Catherine Allgor is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.



List of Illustrations


Introduction



President Thomas Jefferson in Washington City



Dolley Madison Takes Command



Washington Women in Public



Louisa Catherine Adams Campaigns for the Presidency



The Fall of Andrew Jackson's Cabinet


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index