Author: Christopher Challender ChildPublisher:
ISBN: 9780880822206
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Ancestors of American Presidents
Author: Christopher Challender ChildPublisher:
ISBN: 9780880822206
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Ancestors of American Presidents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent
Author: Craig HartPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786483679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
From Martha Washington to Laura Bush, the wife of each U.S. president has found her place in history, often setting trends and doing important work for the nation. This reference work traces the lineage of all presidents' wives, arranged alphabetically from Abigail Adams to Jane Wyman. Genealogy reveals that some of the women are connected to one another through common ancestry, sometimes even through royal blood--for example, the bloodlines of Laura Bush and Abigail Adams join at King Henry II and can then be traced to King Pepin the Short, born in 714. Several others can be traced back to King John, William the Conqueror, Charlemagne, and Lady Godiva. Clearly organized and easy to use, the work includes not only ancestors but offspring, listing children and grandchildren for each woman. Dates of birth, death, and marriage of ancestors, children and grandchildren are included where known.
Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America
Author: Hugh Montgomery-MassingberdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
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.
American Presidential Families
Author: Hugh BroganPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
"Narrative detail not only on the immediate families of the Presidents but on their ancestors and descendants." Also included are essays concerning the presidents' careers as statesmen, family background, and links with Burke's Peerage & Baronetage.
Author in Chief
Author: Craig FehrmanPublisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1476786399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years.” —Thomas Mallon, The Wall Street Journal “Fun and fascinating…It’s witty, charming, and fantastically learned. I loved it.” —Rick Perlstein Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s presidents as authors—and offers a delightful new window into the public and private lives of our highest leaders. Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet few can name the work that helped him win the presidency: his published collection of speeches entitled Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln labored in secret to get his book ready for the 1860 election, tracking down newspaper transcripts, editing them carefully for fairness, and hunting for a printer who would meet his specifications. Political Debates sold fifty thousand copies—the rough equivalent of half a million books in today’s market—and it reveals something about Lincoln’s presidential ambitions. But it also reveals something about his heart and mind. When voters asked about his beliefs, Lincoln liked to point them to his book. In Craig Fehrman’s groundbreaking work of history, Author in Chief, the story of America’s presidents and their books opens a rich new window into presidential biography. From volumes lost to history—Calvin Coolidge’s Autobiography, which was one of the most widely discussed titles of 1929—to ones we know and love—Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father, which was very nearly never published—Fehrman unearths countless insights about the presidents through their literary works. Presidential books have made an enormous impact on American history, catapulting their authors to the national stage and even turning key elections. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, the first presidential book to influence a campaign, and John Adams’s Autobiography, the first score-settling presidential memoir, Author in Chief draws on newly uncovered information—including never-before-published letters from Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan—to cast fresh light on the private drives and self-doubts that fueled our nation’s leaders. We see Teddy Roosevelt as a vulnerable first-time author, struggling to write the book that would become a classic of American history. We see Reagan painstakingly revising Where’s the Rest of Me?, a forgotten memoir in which he sharpened his sunny political image. We see Donald Trump negotiating the deal for The Art of the Deal, the volume that made him synonymous with business savvy. Alongside each of these authors, we also glimpse the everyday Americans who read them. Combining the narrative felicity of a journalist with the rigorous scholarship of a historian, Fehrman delivers a feast for history lovers, book lovers, and everybody curious about a behind-the-scenes look at our presidents.
Ancestry of the Presidents of the United States
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors
Author: Alvin Page JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A genealogy of the ancestors of a president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). Includes the Walton, Aspinwall, Howland, Delano, Church, Lyman, Robbins, and related families.
Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Author: Jeff CarterPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786489545
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family's genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the Mormon Church. More recently Carter's son Jeff took over the family history, determined to discover all that he could about his ancestors. This resulting volume traces every ancestral line of both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter back to the original immigrants to America and chronicles their origins, occupations, and life dates. Among his forebears Carter found cabinet makers, farmers, preachers, illegitimate children, slave owners, indentured servants, a former Hessian soldier who fought against Napoleon, and even a spy for General George Washington at Valley Forge. With never-before-published historic photographs and a foreword by President Jimmy Carter, this is the definitive saga of a remarkable American family.
The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States of America
Author: Walter Lewis ZornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description