ISBN078647436X (softcover : alk. paper)
1476617664 (ebook)
9780786474363 (softcover : alk. paper)
9781476617664 (ebook)
寄与者Ludwig M. Deppisch ; foreword by Connie Mariano.
一般注記Part I. Before the advent of modern medicine -- Martha Washington and Dolley Madison: the first first lady and the first mistress in the White House -- Malaria in the White House: Abigail Adams, Sarah Polk and Lucretia Garfield -- Letitia Tyler: a first lady dies in the White House -- Retiring and sickly first ladies in antebellum Washington: Elizabeth Monroe, Anna Harrison, Margaret Taylor and Abigail Fillmore -- Depression in the White House: the sad stories of Jane Pierce, Louisa Johnson Adams and Mary Todd Lincoln -- Julia Grant and Lucy Hayes: healthy, supportive, socially successful and minimal political impact -- Tuberculosis: the white plague kills Caroline Harrison and ravages other first ladies -- Part II. The twentieth century -- Ida McKinley and the audition of the first White House physician -- Strokes, stress and smokes: Nellie Taft and Pat Nixon -- Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's two wives -- Homeopathic physicians and the kidney disease of Florence Harding and Grace Coolidge -- Mamie Eisenhower and Menière's disease -- Obstetrics in the White House: Jackie Kennedy, Frankie Cleveland, Edith Roosevelt and the second Mrs. Tyler -- Twentieth century stalwarts: Lou Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman and Lady Bird Johnson -- Part III. Modern times and into the twenty-first century -- Breast cancer and other maladies: Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan -- Modern-day first ladies: Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama -- The diseases, burdens and confidentiality of first ladies.