Mary Merwin Phelps, Kate Chase Dominant Daughter, Signed, 1st ed.

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Mary Merwin Phelps’ Kate Chase Dominant Daughter tells the story of one of the most influential belles of Washington D.C. during the Civil War.

Beautiful and imperious, Kate Chase cherished a burning ambition to see her father, Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase, in the Presidency. She married into money and power during the Civil War and saw both disappear by the 1870’s.

Kate Chase Dominant Daughter is a dramatic chronicle of a human life that is both faithful biography and stimulating romance.

Very good; dust jacket. Signed by the author.

Phelps, Mary Merwin. Kate Chase Dominant Daughter: The Life of a Brilliant Woman and her Famous Father. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1935. 1st edition, 316p., frontispiece, illustrations.