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

by John F. Marszalek

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This account of the Eaton Affair describes the story of how Peggy O'Neale Eaton, the wife of President Andrew Jackson's secretary of war, was branded a loose woman and snubbed by Washington society. The president's defence of her honour fuelled intense speculation and a scandal began.
  • ISBN10 0684828014
  • ISBN13 9780684828015
  • Publish Date 2 June 1998
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 1 December 2011
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English