Summary
"While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, Amy S. Greenberg's ri... Full description
- Preface: Mrs. Polk's 1848
- Blackboard, maps, and globes
- A salon in Washington
- Communications director
- Female politicians
- Mrs. Presidentess
- The power of American women to save their country
- That fine manly lady
- Profit and loss
- Neutral ground
- Influence
- Epilogue: Love makes memory eternal
- The Childress family
- The Polk family.