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America's Royalty All the Presidents' Children, Revised and Expanded Edition

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By Sandra L. Quinn-Musgrove and Sanford Kanter

ISBN: 0-313-29535-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29535-5

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320 pages, photographs

Greenwood Press

Publication: 8/30/1995

List Price: $133.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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This represents a step forward in the knowledge about the offspring of the United States' presidents and helps to illustrate the fact that with the exception of James Buchanan(the only presidents to never marry), the election of a new president represents not only an individual ascending to office but also a family beginning a new life. ... This book is well written and informative, and is unique in that it describes in-depth the lives of the president's children. Itis recommended for all libraries.
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ARBA

Description: A comprehensive work about the first families' children, this is the only book available that treats these privileged few at any depth. The reading is enjoyable, answering questions such as, "What happened to...?" and, "Did this president have any children?" The book also is informative, glimpsing the lives of a few who have been shoved into the limelight at a certain period and for generations to come. Historically, the work functions sometimes as a period piece, sometimes as a human interest piece, but it always serves to help bring to life our first families. Included (where possible and/or appropriate) are the vital statistics of birth, marriage, education, development, profession, and death. The book is a good read, but it also serves an historical function. Aside from the fact that the book is informative, reading about the lives of the children of America's chief executives is like peering into a moment of the American equivalent of "royalty." Observing the exciting, painful, humdrum, and heartfelt experiences of both the children and the families may also serve to increase the reader's understanding of the real lives of these emulated families; that they too lead lives that are similar to every person's, except that they are in the historical spotlight. After all, leaders such as Lincoln and Kennedy were forced to continue governing the affairs of state as their sons died.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Childless Presidents
John Adams's Children
Thomas Jefferson's Children
James Monroe's Children
John Quincy Adam's Children
Martin Van Buren's Children
William Henry Harrison's Children
John Tyler's Children
Zachary Taylor's Children
Millard Fillmore's Children
Franklin Pierce's Children
Abraham Lincoln's Children
Andrew Johnson's Children
Ulysses Simpson Grant's Children
Rutherford Birchard Hayes's Children
James Abram Garfield's Children
Chester Alan Arthur's Children
Grover Cleveland's Children
Benjamin Harrison's Children
William McKinley's Children
Theodore Roosevelt's Children
William Howard Taft's Children
Woodrow Wilson's Children
Calvin Coolidge's Children
Herbert Clark Hoover's Child
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Children
Harry S. Truman's Children
Dwight David Eisenhower's Children
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Children
Lyndon Baines Johnson's Children
Richard Milhous Nixon's Children
Gerald Rudolph Ford's Children
James Earl Carter's Children
Ronald Wilson Reagan's Children
George Herbert Walker Bush's Children
William Jefferson Clinton's Child
Appendix: Shared Characteristics of Presidents' Children
Notes
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 95-7545

LCC Class: E176

Dewey Class: 973


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