The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House

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In The Petticoat Affair, prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek offers the primary in–depth investigation of the earliest — and in all probability greatest — political sex scandal in American history. All through Andrew Jackson’s first term in administrative center, Margaret Eaton, the wife of Secretary of State John Henry Eaton, used to be branded a “loose girl” for her unconventional public life. The brash, outgoing, and wonderful daughter of a Washington innkeeper, Margaret had socialized together with her father’s guests and married Eaton very soon after the death of her first husband, shocking genteel society. Jackson saw attacks on Eaton as a part of a conspiracy to topple his administration, and his strong defense of her character dominated the primary two years of his term, and ended in the resignation of his entire cabinet.

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