Ellen And Edith

Author : Kristie Miller
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700621059
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellen and Edith written by Kristie Miller and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought to have had little impact on history. Edith Bolling Wilson was flamboyant and confident but left a legacy of controversy. Yet, as Kristie Miller shows, each played a significant role in the White House. Miller presents a rich and complex portrait of Wilson's wives, one that compels us to reconsider our understanding of both women. Ellen comes into clear focus as an artist and intellectual who dedicated her talents to an ambitious man whose success enabled her to have a significant influence on the institution of the first lady. Miller's assessment of Edith Wilson goes beyond previous flattering accounts and critical assessments. She examines a woman who overstepped her role by hiding her husband's serious illness to allow him to remain in office. But, Miller concludes, Edith was acting as she knew her husband would have wished. Miller explains clearly how these women influenced Woodrow Wilson's life and career. But she keeps her focus on the women themselves, placing their concerns and emotions in the foreground. She presents a balanced appraisal of each woman's strengths and weaknesses. She argues for Ellen's influence not only on her husband but on subsequent first ladies. She strives for an understanding of the controversial Edith, who saw herself as Wilson's principal advisor and, some would argue, acted as shadow president after his stroke. Miller also helps us better appreciate the role of Mary Allen Hulbert Peck, whose role as Wilson's "playmate" complemented that of Ellen-but was intolerable to Edith. Especially because Woodrow Wilson continues to be one of the most-studied American presidents, the task of recognizing and understanding the influence of his wives is an important one. Drawing extensively on the Woodrow Wilson papers and newly available material, Miller's book answers that call with a sensitive and compelling narrative of how private and public emotions interacted at a pivotal moment in the history of first ladies.

Author : Phyllis Lee Levin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074321756X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith and Woodrow written by Phyllis Lee Levin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-03-03 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegantly written, tirelessly researched, full of shocking revelations, Edith and Woodrow offers the definitive examination of the controversial role Woodrow Wilson's second wife played in running the country. "The story of Wilson's second marriage, and of the large events on which its shadow was cast, is darker and more devious, and more astonishing, than previously recorded." -- from the Preface Constructing a thrilling, tightly contained narrative around a trove of previously undisclosed documents, medical diagnoses, White House memoranda, and internal documents, acclaimed journalist and historian Phyllis Lee Levin sheds new light on the central role of Edith Bolling Galt in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Shortly after Ellen Wilson's death on the eve of World War I in 1914, President Wilson was swept off his feet by Edith Bolling Galt. They were married in December 1915, and, Levin shows, Edith Wilson set out immediately to consolidate her influence on him and tried to destroy his relationships with Colonel House, his closest friend and adviser, and with Joe Tumulty, his longtime secretary. Wilson resisted these efforts, but Edith was persistent and eventually succeeded. With the quick ending of World War I following America's entry in 1918, Wilson left for the Paris Peace Conference, where he pushed for the establishment of the League of Nations. Congress, led by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, resisted the idea of an international body that would require one country to go to the defense of another and blocked ratification. Defiant, Wilson set out on a cross-country tour to convince the American people to support him. It was during the middle of this tour, in the fall of 1919, that he suffered a devastating stroke and was rushed back to Washington. Although there has always been controversy regarding Edith Wilson's role in the eighteen months remaining of Wilson's second term, it is clear now from newly released medical records that the stroke had totally incapacitated him. Citing this information and numerous specific memoranda, journals, and diaries, Levin makes a powerfully persuasive case that Mrs. Wilson all but singlehandedly ran the country during this time. Ten years in the making, Edith and Woodrow is a magnificent, dramatic, and deeply rewarding work of history.

Author : Julee Ann Granger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972216906
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Ellen Eddy written by Julee Ann Granger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomboy Edith Ellen Eddy is not a typical little girl. Her parents try to change her until they realize her zest for life is missing.

Author : William Hazelgrove
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621575527
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madam President written by William Hazelgrove and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Author : Ellen Hopkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593108639
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closer to Nowhere written by Ellen Hopkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins's poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging--now in paperback! For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at gymnastics. But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes. Cal tells half-truths and tall tales, pranks Hannah constantly, and seems to be the reason her parents are fighting more and more. Nothing is how it used to be. She knows that Cal went through a lot after his mom died and she is trying to be patient, but most days Hannah just wishes Cal never moved in. For his part, Cal is trying his hardest to fit in, but not everyone is as appreciative of his unique sense of humor and storytelling gifts as he is. Humor and stories might be his defense mechanism, but if Cal doesn't let his walls down soon, he might push away the very people who are trying their best to love him. Told in verse from the alternating perspectives of Hannah and Cal, this is a story of two cousins who are more alike than they realize and the family they both want to save.

Author : Frances Wright Saunders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellen Axson Wilson written by Frances Wright Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan Givner
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0888998538
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellen's Book of Life written by Joan Givner and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ellen is away visiting friends for summer vacation her ailing mother suddenly passes away, throwing her life into turmoil and prompting her to finally seek out her birth mother.

Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780700619023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Kermit Roosevelt written by Lewis L. Gould and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Theodore Roosevelt's wife presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edith Roosevelt has become in the literature on first ladies.

Author : R. Levit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553139648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellen written by R. Levit and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosie Wyles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198725205
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Classical Scholars written by Rosie Wyles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4e de couverture indique : "the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship."