A Picture Book of Dolley and James Madison

A Picture Book of Dolley and James Madison
Author: David A. Adler,Michael S. Adler
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Picture books for children
ISBN: 0823420094

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Known as the Father of the Constitution, James Madison served two terms as the fourth president, from 1809 until 1817. Determined that all Americans be treated fairly, he devised our three branches of government and drafted the Bill of Rights. When the British set fire to Washington D.C. in 1814, his wife Dolley saved one of our country's greatest treasures, a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart which now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution, before fleeing for her life.

James Dolley Madison

James   Dolley Madison
Author: Ruth Ashby
Publsiher: World Almanac Education
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0836857631

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Discusses the personal and political life of James and Dolley Madison and how they came to rely on each other.

Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison

Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison
Author: Dolley Madison
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1886
Genre: Presidents' spouses
ISBN: HARVARD:32044087522439

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James and Dolley Madison

James and Dolley Madison
Author: Bruce Chadwick
Publsiher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781616148362

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This revealing new portrait of James and Dolley Madison introduces the reader to America’s first power couple. Using recently uncovered troves of letters at the University of Virginia, among other sources, historian Bruce Chadwick has been able to reconstruct the details of the Madisons’ personal and political lives. Chadwick argues that Madison was not a boring, average president, as other historians have characterized him, but a vibrant, tough leader—and a very successful commander in chief in the War of 1812. He contends that Madison, the architect of the Constitution, owed much of his success to the political savvy of his charismatic, much younger wife, whose parties and backdoor politicking make for remarkable stories. And Dolley, through her many social skills, created the dynamic role of First Lady that we know today. Despite their glamorous lifestyle, behind the scenes, the Madisons struggled with family drama: James and Dolley’s constant funding of their charming but sociopathic son’s misadventures ultimately led to their own financial ruin. Blending the personal and the political, this is a fascinating profile of a couple whose life together contributed so much to the future course of our nation.

Dolley Madison Saves George Washington

Dolley Madison Saves George Washington
Author: Don Brown
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2007-10-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780547349046

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Dolley was a farm girl who became a fine first lady when she married James Madison. She wore beautiful dresses, decorated her home, and threw lavish parties. Everyone talked about Dolley, and everyone loved her, too. Then war arrived at her doorstep, and Dolley had to meet challenges greater than she’d ever known. So Dolley did one thing she thought might make a difference: she saved George Washington. Not the man himself, but a portrait of him, which would surely have been destroyed by English soldiers. Don Brown once again deftly tells a little known story about a woman who made a significant contribution to American history.

Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison

Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison
Author: Dolly Madison
Publsiher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1887-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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One of our most remarkable First Ladies and Americans, here is Dolly Madison in her own words. This long-forgotten, out-of-print volume is now available for the first time for Kindle. Read her loving correspondence with her husband, James Madison, and her many famous friends like Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Her fire and humor are all on display here in a collection edited in 1886 by her grand-niece. Her birth registry gives her name as "Dolley" but she signed her letters and will as Dolly. Regrettably, like many of her background, was a slave owner nearly to the end of her life and after her husband's death, fell into poverty. She eventually had to sell the family plantation and all her remaining slaves. Daniel Webster bought her former butler and gave him his freedom. He asked the butler to purchase anything in the market that he thought Dolly might want or need and take it to her at Webster's expense. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

A Colored Man s Reminiscences of James Madison

A Colored Man s Reminiscences of James Madison
Author: Paul Jennings
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1865
Genre: Enslaved persons' writings, American
ISBN: CHI:18873864

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Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison
Author: Jean L. S. Patrick
Publsiher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0760728291

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A biography of the popular and dynamic wife of our fourth President, James Madison.