The president's house : a history /
The President's House is an unforgettable account of the White House from its origins during the nation's beginning to 1952, a continuing story of adapting and altering, yet always keeping close to the original image and purpose of the landmark. Seale carefully documents the ways in which...
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Washington, D.C. :
White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society,
[1986]
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Table of Contents:
- [v. 1:] The palace : Washington
- The house : Washington
- The builders : Washington & Adams
- Anachronism : Adams & Jefferson
- The trial : Madison
- The phoenix : Monroe
- End of the old order : Monroe & Adams
- Democracy : Jackson
- Elegance : Van Buren
- Stage and players : Harrison & Tyler
- Imperial house : Polk
- Mid-century : Taylor & Fillmore
- Watershed : Pierce
- An explosion : Buchanan
- Cannon across the Potomac : Lincoln
- Turmoil : Lincoln
- Good news : Lincoln
- The rescue : Johnson
- The glasshouse : Grant
- Flourishes : Grant
- Peace and plenty : Hayes
- Interlude : Garfield
- The aesthetic house : Arthur
- The blue room : Cleveland
- Homecoming : Harrison.
- [v. 2:] A recollection of roses : Cleveland
- 1898 : McKinley
- Grand schemes : McKinley
- An image refined : Theodore Roosevelt
- Protocol : Theodore Roosevelt
- Chronicles : Theodore Roosevelt
- Summer days : Taft
- Thresholds : Wilson
- 1917 : Wilson
- Distant drums : Wilson
- Limelight : Harding
- Hearth and home : Coolidge
- Irony : Hoover
- Full house : Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Sketchbooks : Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The castle : Franklin D. Roosevelt
- History : Truman
- The symbol : Truman.