*UPDATE*

I have updated my review and giveaway policies page (now just titled Policies above). If you are entering a giveaway, please read and abide by the applicable policy.

Attention Authors! If you arrived here looking for information on the Two Sides to Every Story guest post series, see the tab at the top of the page for more info!


Search This Blog

Monday, November 7, 2011

Mailbox Monday #88


I have been really collecting books over the last few weeks - mostly not for pleasure reading or reviewing but more for my Research Methods class.  But they are still pertinent for this blog as I am working on a research project on First Ladies and Politics - prior to the Civil War.  So I have made several trips to the library and have been buying from Ebay and Amazon when I can't get them through the library.  Some of these will turn into reviews here.  So here is what I have hauled in the past few weeks:

  • Sarah Childress Polk by John Reed Bumgarner - biography of the wife of the 11th President - will be reviewed - purchased
  • Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and Government by Catherine Allgor - will be reviewed - purchased
  • The Presidential Companion: Readings on the First Ladies edited by Robert P. Watson - possibly reviewed - purchased
  • The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century by Myra G Gutin - probably not reviewed - purchased before I decided I wanted to focus on pre-Civil War but will still probably use it as reference
  • First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image by Edith P. Mayo - this was a catalog for a Smithsonian show and I was super excited to find a copy of it - won't review it but awesome reference - purchased
  • First Ladies by Betty Boyd Caroli - won't review - borrowed from library
  • The Presidents' Wives: Reassessing the Office of First Lady by Robert P. Watson - won't review - borrowed from the library but may try an purchase online.  This is a great reference book and probably my top source for my research.
  • Rating the First Ladies: The Women Who Influenced the Presidency by John B Roberts II - won't review but am using it for my Rate the First Ladies posts - borrowed from library
  • America's First Ladies: Private Lives of the Presidential Wives by Diana Dixon Healy - honestly haven't looked at it yet, probably won't review - borrowed from library
  • American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy edited by Lewis L. Gould - haven't looked at this one yet either, probably won't review - borrowed from library
Hope you all received some interesting things in your mailboxes!


Mailbox Monday is on a monthly blog tour and for the month of November will be hosted at the Mailbox Monday Blog!




Copyright © 2011 by The Maiden’s Court

1 comment:

  1. I like your first ladies books! should be very intriguing.

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for leaving your comments! I love reading them and try to reply to all!