The First Ladies (14 page)

Schachtman, Tom.
Edith and Woodrow: A Presidential Romance.
New York: Putnam, 1981.

Seager, Robert, III.
And Tyler Too.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963.

Seale, William.
The President’s House: A History.
2 vols. Washington, DC: White House Historical Association, 1986.

Shepherd, Jack.
The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975.

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Cannibals of the Heart: A Personal Biography of Louisa Catherine and John Quincy Adams.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Sievers, Harry J.
Benjamin Harrison.
3 vols. Chicago: Regnery, 1952–58.

Sinclair, Andrew.
The Available Man: The Life behind the Masks of Warren Gamaliel Harding.
New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Smith, Gene.
The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression.
New York: Morrow, 1970.

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When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson.
New York: Morrow, 1964.

Smith, Marie, and Louise Durbin.
White House Brides.
Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1966.

Stoddard, Henry L.
As I Knew Them: Presidents and Politics from Grant to Coolidge.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927.

Sullivan, Mark.
Our Times.
Vol. 5,
Over Here, 1914–1918.
New York: Scribner, 1933.

Sullivan, Michael John.
Presidential Passions: The Love Affairs of America’s Presidents—From Washington and Jefferson to Kennedy and Johnson.
New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991.

Taft, Helen Herron.
Recollections of Full Years.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914.

Thompson, Charles Willis.
Presidents I’ve Known and Two Near Presidents.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929.

Todd, Helen.
A Man Named Grant.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940.

Tribble, Edwin, ed.
A President in Love: The Courtship Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

Truman, Margaret.
Bess W. Truman.
New York: Macmillan, 1986.

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First Ladies.
New York: Random House, 1995.

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Harry S. Truman.
New York: Morrow, 1973.

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Letters from Father: The Truman Family’s Personal Correspondence.
New York: Arbor House, 1981.

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Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman.
New York: Warner, 1969.

Tumulty, Joseph P.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921.

Wead, Doug.
All the President’s Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America’s First Families.
New York: Atria Books, 2003.

Weinstein, Edwin A.
Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.

White, William Allen.
A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge.
New York: Macmillan, 1938.

Whitney, Janet.
Abigail Adams.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1947.

Wikander, Lawrence E., and Robert H. Ferrell, eds.
Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography.
Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing, 1992.

Wilentz, Sean.
Andrew Jackson.
New York: Times Books, 2005.

Wilson, Edith Bolling.
My Memoir.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1939.

Withey, Lynne.
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams.
New York: Free Press, 1981.

Woodward, William E.
Meet General Grant.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928.

Feather Schwartz Foster has been an independent presidential historian for more than three decades, with a personal library of more than twelve hundred president-related volumes.

After spending thirty-five years in advertising and public relations with various agencies and industrial firms, she now lectures about the “old” First Ladies at adult education venues associated with the College of William and Mary and Christopher Newport University.
The First Ladies
is her fourth book.

She lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.