Paul Brandus
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Language
English
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The history of our highest office, and the country, through the life of an oft ignored major character, the White House itself.Even in this time of relentless coverage of the President's every move, we can forget that he and his advisers are human, with a life filled with smaller personal moments that lead up to the big public ones. Imagine Nixon in the East Room, worrying what would happen if the moon mission fails, or McKinley in the map room knowing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For each of the 366 days of the year, Brandus offers fascinating facts, historical anecdotes, and pithy quotations from and about all the presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Donald Trump. Stories span war and peace, sex and scandal, frivolity and tragedy, including: the night Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth met at Ford's Theatre, 17 months before Booth's crime -- the advice Richard Nixon gave Donald Trump -- the president...