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In this beautifully written and meticulously researched biography, John Oller captures the tumultuous, passionate, and ultimately tragic life of Kate Chase Sprague, Mary Lincoln's ambitious rival.
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American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague -- Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal
2014, Hachette Books
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0306822814 9780306822810
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American queen: the rise and fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War "Belle of the North" and gilded age woman of scandal
2014, Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
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0306822806 9780306822803
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Table of Contents
Prologue: A Woman in the Arena -- -- Part 1.
Miss Chase -- -- 1.
"Qualified to Ornament Any Society" -- -- 2.
"I Shall Strive to Be First Wherever I May Be" -- -- 3.
"How Short Then Is This Life!" -- -- 4.
The Belle of Columbus -- -- 5.
The Belle of Washington -- -- 6.
The Boy Governor -- -- 7.
Mrs. Lincoln's Rival -- -- 8.
Wedding of the Decade -- -- Part 2.
Mrs. Sprague -- -- 9.
"Imagine My Disappointment" -- -- 10.
"Our Accomplished Countrywoman" -- -- 11.
"More Unfitness Day by Day" -- -- 12.
"I Am Told That She Actually Controls the Entire Affair" -- -- 13.
"You Have Been Most Cruelly Deceived" -- -- 14.
"I Almost Hate This Man" -- -- 15.
"She's Capable of Hitting Him" -- -- 16.
Some Dared Call It Treason -- -- 17.
End of an Era -- -- 18.
End of an Empire -- -- 19.
"Intended by Their Creator for Each Other" -- -- 20.
"Mrs. Conkling Is Not Here This Winter" -- -- 21.
"The Now Notorious Outbreak" -- -- 22.
"The Bird Has Flown" -- -- Part 3.
Kate Chase Again -- -- 23.
"A Dinner with the Queen" -- -- 24.
"As Much Alone as Cleopatra" -- -- 25.
Gilded Age Woman -- -- 26.
Stalwart Woman -- -- 27.
An Unmarried Woman -- -- 28.
An Independent Woman -- -- 29.
"What We Have Is Good" -- -- 30.
"None Outshone Her" --
Epilogue --
Acknowledgments --
Notes --
Selected Bibliography --
Index --
Photographs following page.
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Includes bibliographical references 353-361) and index.
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