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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Fletch mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
13) Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. In the mid-19th century, the industrial vigor of the United States of America was catapulting the republic towards the Gilded...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
1 video media player (1 hr, 18 min.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Just a few words, Mr. Lincoln: Provides a look at the private side of Abraham Lincoln and at the circumstances surrounding his short, but memorable speech at the dedication of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield.
George Washington's mother: Describes the life of the mother of the first US president and her relationship with her children.
Will you sign here, John Hancock?: A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence...
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