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A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years. She was an avid supporter of the Brooklyn Dodgers (because...
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Presidents' mothers include Sara Delano Roosevelt, Martha Young Truman, Ida Stover Eisenhower, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Rebekah Baines Johnson, Hannah Milhous Nixon, Dorothy Gardner King Ford, Lillian Gordy Carter, Nelle Wilson Reagan, Dorothy Walker Bush, and Virginia Cassidy Blythe Clinton.
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2019.
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"Biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. Places her life as an orphan, a young wife in rural Virginia, a slaveholder, a widow, and mother to the first president in the context of the changing economic circumstances and cultural values of colonial Virginia and a young nation"--
9) Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
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2023.
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Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated much of their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicenter of political power on two continents. In the mid-19th century, the...
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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;...
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[2013]
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Describes the life of the Kennedy family matriarch using information culled from her newly-made-public diaries and letters from defying her father's wishes and marrying Joseph Kennedy through the crushing tragedies that seem to plague her extensive family.
15) First mothers
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[2002]
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English
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Explores the lives of the women who raised recent U.S. presidents: Sara Delano Roosevelt, and Ida Eisenhower through Barbara Bush. Examines the importance of the mother-son relationship in the Oval Office, through interviews with selected presidents as well as historians and scholars.
17) First mothers
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[2012]
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IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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870L
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Profiles of the American presidents' mothers reveal their achievements while sharing anecdotes and childhood stories, from Thomas Jefferson's mother's solo management of a plantation to Abraham Lincoln's mother's stint as a wrestler.
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