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Bezig met laden... Dolley (1994)door Rita Mae Brown
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I know Brown was trying to bring Dolly Madison to life, but this was just too dry for fiction. ( ) This is a very uneven novel. It is supposed to be Dolley Madison's diary, and I found it very interesting. Then she tells us that her difficult maid, Sukey or Susan, ripped some pages out of the diary, and so there is a big jump in the story, which I thought was very clumsy. Again it was enjoyable, once we got restarted. Brown keeps emphasizing that Dolley was very opposed to slavery, and that Madison only kept his slaves out of respect for his mother's wishes. In The Invisibles by Jesse J. Holland, there is a very different view of her treatment of slaves, particularly as the Madisons's finances declined, largely due to their indulgence of Dolley's son, Payne Todd, from her first marriage (and he was a Pain). Dolley and Payne began selling them off, in defiance of her husband's will. Let's say that Dolley had great virtues, which Brown praises, and some serious faults, to which Brown pays much less attention. It did inspire me to visit Montpelior (which I highly recommend), and to buy the Dolley Madison coin that was issued to help pay for its restoration. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Literature.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:She had the presidentâ??s ear and the nationâ??s heart. Sheâ??s the wife of the fourth president of the United States; a spirited charmer who adores parties, the latest French fashions, and the tender, brilliant man who is her husband. But while many love her, few suspect how complex Dolley Madison really is. Only in the pages of her diaryâ??as imagined by novelist Rita Mae Brownâ??can Dolley fully reveal herself. And there we discover the real first ladyâ??impulsive, courageous, and wiseâ??as she faces her harshest trial: in 1814, the United States is once more at war with mighty Britain, and her beloved James is the most hated man in America. From the White House receptions she gaily presides over to her wild escape from a Washington under siege, Dolley gives us a legend, made warmly human. For there has never been a first lady so testedâ??or one who came through Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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