American Presidential Families
Author | : Hugh Brogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : Hugh Brogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : E. H. Gwynne-Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This is a guide to the first families of America, covering the character, career, writings, ancestry, wives, siblings and descendants of the 39 US presidents from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. This revised edition also includes essays on the presidents, with portraits of them and their wives; and pedigrees showing their descendants. The direct male line ancestry of every president is traced back to the earliest recorded origins of the family. A detailed account is provided of all progeny, living and dead, in male and female lines, and of stepchildren and adopted children of presidents.
Author | : Doug Wead |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2005-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416513078 |
"God bless my mother, all I am or ever hope to be I owe to her." -- Abraham Lincoln What are the family circumstances that have created our presidents? How did their upbring-ing shape their future and ours? New York Times bestselling author Doug Wead answers these questions in one of the most comprehensive studies of presidential families to date. When one thinks about the leadership qualities of George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt or the intellectual prowess of John Adams and Abraham Lincoln, it is hard to imagine them as children. It is even more difficult to envision the parents of our leaders, especially the larger-than-life idols of our political past. Our greatest presidents have entered the Oval Office armed with overwhelming ambition, intellect, and political savvy. But were these characteristics evident in childhood? The Raising of a President is a groundbreaking look at the parents of the American presidents, full of never-before-seen facts and anecdotes, as well as psychological profiles based on Wead's findings. He analyzes the types of families into which our presidents were born, and sheds a fascinating light on how their destinies were shaped during childhood. Using countless presidential correspondences and letters, as well as notes from hours of his own private conversations and interviews with six presidents and first ladies, Wead focuses specifically on the early life of our first president, George Washington; John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and the making of our nation's first political empire; the humble beginnings of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln; the privileged upbringing of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the ambitious rise of John Fitzgerald Kennedy; and the "quiet dynasty" led by George H. W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush. Throughout The Raising of a President, readers will find that the circumstances and events that would destroy most children were often the very things that sparked greatness in our nation's future leaders. These are the stories of the presidents' parents, but in a truer sense, they are the stories of the presidents themselves, from a perspective that is long overdue.
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Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : 9782940085002 |
Author | : Ronald Kessler |
Publisher | : Forum Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080413961X |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”—Slate As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. Crammed with new headline-making revelations, The First Family Detail by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler tells that eye-opening, uncensored story. The First Family Detail reveals: • Vice President Joe Biden regularly orders the Secret Service to keep his military aide with the nuclear football a mile behind his motorcade, potentially leaving the country unable to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack. • Secret Service agents discovered that former president Bill Clinton has a blond mistress—code-named Energizer by agents—who lives near the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, New York. • The Secret Service covered up the fact that President Ronald Reagan’s White House staff overruled the agency to let unscreened spectators get close to Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton, allowing John W. Hinckley Jr. to shoot the president. • Because Hillary Clinton is so nasty to agents, being assigned to her protective detail is considered a form of punishment and the worst assignment in the Secret Service. “Kessler’s such a skilled storyteller, you almost forget this is dead-serious nonfiction.”—Newsweek
Author | : Doug Wead |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2004-01-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 074344633X |
Biographical sketches of the children of the presidents from the time of George Washington to the present.
Author | : Adrian Miller |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2017-02-09 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1469632543 |
An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work—Non Fiction James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation's history. Daisy McAfee Bonner, for example, FDR's cook at his Warm Springs retreat, described the president's final day on earth in 1945, when he was struck down just as his lunchtime cheese souffle emerged from the oven. Sorrowfully, but with a cook's pride, she recalled, "He never ate that souffle, but it never fell until the minute he died." A treasury of information about cooking techniques and equipment, the book includes twenty recipes for which black chefs were celebrated. From Samuel Fraunces's "onions done in the Brazilian way" for George Washington to Zephyr Wright's popovers, beloved by LBJ's family, Miller highlights African Americans' contributions to our shared American foodways. Surveying the labor of enslaved people during the antebellum period and the gradual opening of employment after Emancipation, Miller highlights how food-related work slowly became professionalized and the important part African Americans played in that process. His chronicle of the daily table in the White House proclaims a fascinating new American story.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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