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• First Monticello
• To Paris
• School life
• Families reunited
• Transitions
• Becoming American again
• A Virginia wife
• Harriet's Monticello
• An enlightened household
• Departure
• Passing
• Legacies.

A portrait of the divergent lives of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters reveals how his white daughters struggled with the realities of lives they were ill-prepared to manage, while the daughter he fathered with a slave did not achieve freedom until adulthood.
"Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson's Daughters, Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three women--and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from the American Revolution. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris--a hothouse of intellectual ferment whose celebrated salonnières are vividly brought to life in Kerrison's narrative. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery--apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters when they were in their teens, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. She has interviewed Hemings family descendants (and, with their cooperation, initiated DNA testing) and searched for descendants of Harriet Hemings. The eventful lives of Thomas Jefferson's daughters provide a unique vantage point from which to examine the complicated patrimony of the American Revolution itself. The richly interwoven story of these three strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies sheds new light on the ongoing movement toward human rights in America--and on the personal and political legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers." -- Publisher's description

• Timeline of Key Events
• 1. Dilemmas of the Female Politician
• 2. The "Woman Card" Moves to the Bottom of the Deck
• 3. Bernie Sanders and the "Millennials"
• 4. "Untrustworthy Hillary"
• 5. Damned Emails
• 6. A Tale of Two Conventions, and One Hot Mic
• 7. Coup d'Etat.

"A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo. The Destruction of Hillary Clintonis an answer to the question we've all been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate--whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's--come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician? In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year, Susan Bordo unpacks the right-wing assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way the left provoked the suspicion and indifference of a younger generation, and the unprecedented influence of the media. Urgent, insightful, and engrossing,The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an essential guide to understanding the most controversial presidential election in American history"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1.Hillary Clinton's "18 Million Cracks": The Enduring Legacy of the Presidential Glass Ceiling, Diane M. Blair 2.Hillary's Arkansas Comeback: Achieving Education Standards Reform, Margaret E. Scranton 3.Smart Power and Hillary Clinton's Campaign Discourse: 2012-2016, Kathleen Mollick 4.From First Lady to Senator of New York: A Quantified-Qualitative Analysis of Hillary Clinton's Political Rhetoric during the Four Democratic National Conventions, Michele Lockhart 5.Authenticity, Authority, and Gender: Hard Choices as Professional Autobiography and Transnational Feminist Manifesto, Michelle Smith 6.(Re)Writing Her Story: The Lives of Hillary Clinton's Autobiographical Self, A. Fletcher Cole 7.Chelsea's Mom, Charlotte's Grandma: Negotiating a New Role in the Presidential Construction of Hillary Clinton, Debbie Jay Williams 8."Who Run the World?": Hillary Clinton and the Use of Pop Feminism as Rhetorical Strategy, Rebecca S. Richards 9.A Sartorial Tapestry: The Rhetorical Shifts of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Farris Lee Francis and Rochelle Gregory 10."Let's Chat": Hillary's Cyber Presence as Rhetorical Space, Sara Hillin.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse examines how Clinton uses political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to lead. This edited collection analyzes interviews with and media reports about Clinton to present readers with a pre-election picture of her discourse and its relation to the 2016 election.
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• Introduction: Taking the Long View of Election 2008 / Liette Gidlow Part I. Representations: Is Hillary Man Enough? Is Barack Black Enough? Is Michelle the New Jacqueline Kennedy?
• 1: Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Race Question, and the "Masculine Mystique" / Kathryn Kish Sklar--
• 2: Barack Obama and the Politics of Anger / Tiffany Patterson--
• 3: Michelle Obama, the Media Circus, and America's Racial Obsession / Mitch Kachun Part II. Historical Precedents, or How Election 2008 Began Before the Civil War
• 4: The 2008 Election, Black Women's Politics, and the Long Civil Rights Movement / Glenda Gilmore--
• 5: The Forgotten Legacy of Shirley Chisholm: Race v. Gender in the 2008 Democratic Primaries / Tera W. Hunter--
• 6: Hillary Clinton's Candidacy in Historical and Global Context / Susan Hartmann--
• 7: Defining a Maverick: Putting Palin in the Context of Western Women's Political History / Melanie Gustafson--
• 8: Populist Currents in the 2008 Presidential Campaign / Ronald Formisano Part III. Unintended Legacies: Democracy Undermined, Feminism Redefined
• 9: Obama 2.0: Farewell to the Federal Campaign Finance System and the Secret Ballot? / Paula Baker--
• 10: Political Feminism and the Problem of Sarah Palin / Catherine Rymph Conclusion: The Difference that "Difference" Makes / Elisabeth I. Perry Historical Timeline-- Contributors.
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Election 2008 made American history, but it was also the product of American history. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin smashed through some of the most enduring barriers to high political office, but their exceptional candidacies did not come out of nowhere. In these timely and accessible essays, a distinguished group of historians explores how the candidates both challenged and reinforced historic stereotypes of race and sex while echoing familiar themes in American politics and exploiting new digital technologies. Contributors include Kathryn Kish Sklar on Clinton's gender masquerade; Tiffany Ruby Patterson on the politics of black anger; Mitch Kachun on Michelle Obama and stereotypes about black women's bodies; Glenda E. Gilmore on black women's century of effort to expand political opportunities for African Americans; Tera W. Hunter on the lost legacy of Shirley Chisholm; Susan M. Hartmann on why the U.S. has not yet followed western democracies in electing a female head of state; Melanie Gustafson on Palin and the political traditions of the American West; Ronald Formisano on the populist resurgence in 2008; Paula Baker on how digital technologies threaten the secret ballot; Catherine E. Rymph on Palin's distinctive brand of political feminism; and Elisabeth I. Perry on the new look of American leadership.
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• Mr. Peterman's shirt
• Williamsburg in 1760
• Rebecca Burwell
• Elizabeth Moore Walker
• Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
• Maria Cosway
• Sally Hemings
• Amazons and angels
• Remember the ladies
• Gay and thoughtless Paris
• Pêle-Mêle
• All men are created equal
• Appendix A : the Jefferson-Walker affair
• Appendix B : Children born to Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson and to Sally Hemings
• Appendix C : Dialogue between my head and my heart : Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786.

• Martha Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt (1835-1884)-- Anne Bamie Roosevelt Cowles (1855-1931)-- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933)-- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (1861-1948) and Sara Delano Roosevelt (1854-1941)-- Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (1884-1962)-- Corinne Robinson Alsop (1886-1971)-- Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (1891-1977)-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)-- Epilogue.
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From the bestselling author of F irst Ladies, Inside the White House , and A mericas First Ladies comes the first look at the women of one of the most influential families in American history: The Roosevelts.. The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt Women , Betty Boyd Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interview to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history. }The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt Women , Betty Boyd Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history.She examines the Roosevelt women as mothers, daughters, wives, and, beyond that, as world travelers, authors, campaigners, and socialitesin short, as themselves. She reveals how they demonstrated the energy and intellectual curiosity that defined their famous family, as well as the roles they played in the intrigues, scandals, and accomplishments that were hallmarks of the Roosevelt clan. From the much maligned Sara Delano (who sired Franklin and by turns terrified and supported Eleanor) to Theodores irrepressible daughter, Alice (I can either rule the country or control Alice, Teddy once said) to the beloved Bamie, who was the only mother Alice ever knew, and the model of everything she never was in life, to the exceptionally beautiful but ultimately overwhelmed Mittie, Theodores mother, The Roosevelt Women is an intricate portrait of bold and talented women, a grand tale of both unbearable tragedies and triumphant achievements. }.
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The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history. She examines the Roosevelt women as mothers, daughters, wives, and, beyond that, as world travelers, authors, campaigners, and socialitesin short, as themselves. She reveals how they demonstrated the energy and intellectual curiosity that defined their famous family, as well as the roles they played in the intrigues, scandals, and accomplishments that were hallmarks of the Roosevelt clan. From the much maligned Sara Delano (who sired Franklin and by turns terrified and supported Eleanor) to Theodores irrepressible daughter, Alice (I can either rule the country or control Alice, Teddy once said) to the beloved Bamie, who was the only mother Alice ever knew, and the model of everything she never was in life, to the exceptionally beautiful but ultimately overwhelmed Mittie, Theodores mother, The Roosevelt Women is an intricate portrait of bold and talented women, a grand tale of both unbearable tragedies and triumphant achievements.
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The role played by the spouse of a political candidate has changed dramatically over the past decade. Grimes looks at how political wives handle the public images they didn't create, and what criteria American voters finally use to judge them.
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