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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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Main Author: Seale, William, (Author)
Corporate Authors: White House Historical Association., National Geographic Society (U.S.), Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, [1986]
Subjects and Genres:
White House (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) > White House > District de Columbia.
Presidents > Dwellings > United States.
White House (Washington, D.C.).
Washington (D.C.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Presidents > United States > Dwellings.
Présidents > Résidences officielles > États-Unis.
Buildings.
Presidents > Dwellings.
Présidents > États-Unis > Habitations.
United States.
Washington (D.C.)
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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.

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