Ida McKinley : The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability /

This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847-- 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from epilepsy--which the society of her era mistakenly believed to border o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anthony, Carl Sferrazza (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
McKinley, Ida Saxton, > 1847-1907.
Presidents' spouses.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Red Room, 1899
  • A daughter studies
  • The well-employed belle
  • Birth and death
  • The active invalid
  • "Tremendous leverage"
  • "At home"
  • Silver lights
  • American Ida
  • For the sake of appearances
  • In time of war
  • Thwarted redemption
  • Descent from Mount Tom
  • The resolution
  • Turn of the century
  • San Francisco to Buffalo
  • Exposition
  • The holding vault
  • The comfort of Katie.

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