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Title: America's First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)) by Carl Sferrazza Anthony ISBN: 0-684-86442-8 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Enjoyable light historical reading
Comment: This book gives an insight into the private lives of the first families. We learn about their extended families, hobbies, illnesses, preparations for leaving the White House when their terms are completed, etc. The pictures are what really makes this book great. We see Lyndon Johnson in bed with his wife watching tv and we see the older George Bush in bed too (can you imagine Nixon or Clinton letting down his guard like this?). We see Gerald Ford in his bathrobe. If you always wanted to see such a sight, there is a photo of Eleanor Roosevelt in a bathing suit and a rare photo of Franklin in shorts with his polio ravaged legs exposed to the camera. We see painful personal moments such as the famous photo of Nixon hugging his daughter Julie when he made the decision to resign. In short this is, at times, a very rare personal and intimate glimpse into the lives of the first families. I enjoyed it and recommend it highly.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh, What a Lovely Piece of Work This Is!
Comment: I have been fortunate enough to read Mr. Anthony's brilliant "First Ladies" mini-opuses, and highly looked forward to this epic on the lives of our First Families. I sat for three hours stright with an almost constant smile on my face as I ran through the pages. What an amazing acheivement Mr. Anthony has pulled together! I can only imagine the painstaking research needed to find out the tidbits sprinkled throughout. There is so much information in this novel that it almost boggles the mind at times and is a bit overwhelming. I wondered if everything was sinking in, when I saw Mr. Anthony speak at the Richard Nixon library on CSPAN one night recounting the tales found here. Every story he told was instantly recalled and sentences finished before explaining. The sheer knowledge that one can gain from reading this novel is tremendous. (Where else can you find a list of President's favorite movies? By Reagan selecting Rambo, it does nothing but prove what a complete and utter moron we had occupying the White House under his reign).....Point proven further....When listing President's favorite reading options, Mr Anthony lays out beautiful examples of this. President Clinton enjoys biographies of his predecessors, Eisenhower military biographies and TR, anything he could get his hands on. Reagan? Newspaper comics.....I shall leave my review at that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Entertaining look at White House hsitory
Comment: I purchased this book yesterday and I can't put it down. It is filled with great pictures and stories of the forty-one famlies who lived in the White House. This is a great source of presidential trivia and provides a human element to the most famous family in America. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in American history and the lives of the presidents.
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Title: First Ladies Vol II (First Ladies) by Carl Sferrazza Anthony ISBN: 0688125751 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 27 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families by Doug Wead ISBN: 0743446313 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: First Ladies Vol I by Carl Sferrazza Anthony ISBN: 0688112722 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 27 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents by Bonnie Angelo ISBN: 0060937114 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Presidential Wives by Paul F. Boller, Paul Boller ISBN: 0195121422 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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