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 the ...
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. Madison" ...