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| Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, From White House Princess to Washington Power Broker | Cordery, Stacy A. | 2007 | New York: Viking | The only biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth written by an historian, Alice is based on Longworth's private papers and provides an insider's view of first ladies during Mrs L's sixty years in Washington (including her step-mother Edith Roosevelt). |
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| An American Family: The Tafts - 1678 to 1964 | Ross, Ishbel | 1964 | Cleveland: World Publishing Company | The multi-generational story of the Taft family has much information on the early and later years of Helen Taft. |
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| American First Ladies | Watson, Robert P., ed. | 2006 | Pasadena, CA: Salem Press | |
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| American National Biography | Carnes, Mark C., and John A. Garraty, eds. | 1999 | New York: Oxford University Press | The American National Biography was originally published in 24 volumes. It is updated semi-annually. The print edition contains biographies of Americans who died before 1955. The on-line, subscription version, contains those who died after 1955. |
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| America’s First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House | Anthony, Carl Sferrazza | 2000 | New York: Touchstone | |
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| America’s First Ladies: Ohio Library was Established in 1997 in Their Honor | Wadley, Carma | 2007 | Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) 19 February 2007 | Article celebrates the tenth anniversary of the National First Ladies Library and includes a quiz on the subject of First Ladies.
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| America’s First Ladies: Their Uncommon Wisdom, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush | Adler, Bill | 2002 | Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishers | |
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| America’s Most Influential First Ladies | Anthony, Carl Sferrazza | 1992 | Minneapolis: Oliver Press | |
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| Around the World with Taft | Murray, Robert H. | 1909 | Detroit: F.B. Dickerson | |
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| As I Knew Them | Stoddard, Henry L. | 1927 | New York: Harper & Brothers | |
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| ‘At Homes’ Begun By Cabinet Women | | 1932 | New York Times 8 December | Helen Taft among the distinguished women who assisted at an at-home hosted by Dolly Gann.. |
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| Aunt Delia Makes Taft Forget his Cares: Gives Pleasant Birthday Party for Him | | 1912 | New York Times 16 September | |
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| The Autobiography of William Allen White | White, William Allen | 1946 | New York: Macmillan | |
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| Backstage in 1912 | Rosewater, Victor | 1932 | Philadelphia: Dorrance | |
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| Backstairs at the White House. | | 1979 | : | |
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| Brilliant Scene at Inaugural Ball | | 1909 | New York Times 5 March | |
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| British Colonial Government After the American Revolution 1782-1820 | Manning, Helen Taft | 1933 | New Haven: Yale University Press | Book written by the Taft’s daughter, who briefly acted as hostess during her mother’s stroke. The book does not mention the First Lady. |
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| Celebrating Women: History, Biographies, and Museums | Byerly, Greg, and Carolyn Brodie | 2005 | Library Media Activities Monthly April 2005 | Reviews of websites containing information about the First Ladies, including the National First Ladies Library. |
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| Cherry Blossom Time: 75th Anniversary Will Honor Cincinnati’s Nellie Taft | Anthony, Carl Sferrazza | 1987 | Tristate Magazine (Cincinnati) 15 March | |
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| Cherry Blossom Time in Washington | Roosevelt, Eleanor | 1938 | Reader’s Digest April | |
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| Children In the White House | Sadler, Christine | 1967 | New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
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| Colonial Domesticity: White Women and United States Rule in the Philippines | Rafael, Vincente L | 1995 | American Literature. 67.4 December | Discussion of the Tafts in the Philippines. |
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| Congress Clears Dollar Coin Bill | Higa, Liriel | 2005 | CQ Weekly 26 December 2005 | House of Representatives passes bill which would allow the Treasury to mint $10 coins with images of First Ladies. |
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| Crowded Hours | Longworth, Alice Roosevelt | 1933 | New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons | |
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| Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House | Young, Dwight, and Margaret Johnson, eds. | 2008 | Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society | Reproductions of letters from the Library of Congress and the National Archives to and from First Ladies, with annotations explaining the nature of the correspondence and the historical contexts within which each epistle was written.
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| Dictionary of American Biography | | 1980 | New York: Scribner | The venerable Dictionary of American Biography was first published in twenty volumes between 1927 and 1936. Ten subsequent volumes were published, and the most recent, edited by historian Kenneth Jackson and published by Scribner, includes Americans who died before the year 1980. The First Ladies are included. |
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| Elihu Root (2 vols) | Jessup, Philip C. | 1938 | New York: Dodd, Mead & Company | |
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| Ex-President Taft Dies at Capital, Succumbing to Many Weeks Illness | | 1930 | New York Times 9 March | |
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| Fail to Recognize the Lighter Taft | | 1913 | New York Times 1 July | Story details Taft family departure for vacation in Canada. |
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| The Family and Home Life of Mr. And Mrs. Taft: Typifying the Best American Traditions the Secretary and His Wife Have Naturally Won Hosts of Friends Here and in the Colonies | | 1908 | New York Times 21 June | |
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