A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation By Catherine Allgor Holt, 493 pages, $30 We know the faces of most of the principals of America’s founding era only in … ...

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HELLO, DOLLEY! Dolley Madison was portly, she was over-the-top, so why shouldn’t a book about her -- and the advance for it -- be the same? Catherine Allgor, an assistant professor of history at ...

In this elegant biography, award-winning historian Allgor (Parlor Politics) makes the case that not only was Dolley Madison incredibly popular with the American people—"Everybody loves Mrs ...

On July 4, 1848, Dolley Madison, the 80-year-old widow of President James Madison, joined 90-year-old Elizabeth Hamilton on the mall in the nation’s capital. A future president was also there ...

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor talked about her book, [A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons]. In her book she recounts the life of Paul Jennings, born into slavery on the ...