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First friends, the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents, by Gary Ginsberg

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First friends, the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents, by Gary Ginsberg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

First friends

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1243011585

Responsibility statement

by Gary Ginsberg

Sub title

the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents

Summary

"FIRST FRIENDS includes the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, the man with whom Lincoln once shared a bed and who did more to help him emerge from his crippling depression than anyone else; Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who played a pivotal part in America's recognition of the state of Israel in 1948; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley, a distant cousin for whom the president had deep feelings and entrusted with highly classified strategic and diplomatic information that even his cabinet members were not aware of. These and other friendships -- including JFK and David Ormsby-Gore, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo -- populate this fresh and provocative exploration of over a dozen seminal presidential friendships"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison -- Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed -- Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House -- FDR and Daisy Suckley -- Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson -- Jack Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore -- Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo -- Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan

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1st friendsPowerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents

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