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The White House is the official workplace and residence of the President of the United States. It's also a haunted hotspot! Over the years, many visitors and inhabitants of the White House have described paranormal encounters there. Whether it's seeing Abigail Adams doing the washing, viewing Abraham Lincoln lurking in his bedroom, or watching Dolly Madison tending the rose garden, the stories of ghostly apparitions have drawn supernatural enthusiasts...
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How did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be president"?
Historian Randall Balmer takes us on a tour of presidential religiosity in the last half of the twentieth century-from Kennedy's 1960 speech that proposed an almost absolute wall between American political and religious life to the soft religiosity of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society; from...
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The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture and how it influences Americans' perceptions of the country's highest political office.
In this timely volume, editors Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren...
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DISCLAIMERThis book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of White House by the Sea By Kate Storey : A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:Chapter astute outline of the main contents.Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original bookWhite House by the Sea...
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"Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she's learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation's interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her ability to break through the noise and successfully deliver...
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In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone Atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan's 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan's dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of...
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Three days before his assassination Abraham Lincoln had a dream. In it, he awoke to the sound of subdued cries. Slowly, he walked down the stairs and into the East Room of the White House where he was met with a sickening surprise.Before him, lay a catafalque on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Soldiers stood guard as mourners filed past the body."Who is dead in the White House," demanded Lincoln. "The President," replied a soldier....
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Michael Gerson, who worked with George W. Bush on his most inspiring speeches, is considered by many Democrats and Republicans to be the most influential White House speechwriter since the Kennedy administration. He was also more than a speechwriter, he was a trusted insider who helped shape policy.
In Heroic Conservatism Gerson uses his own experiences in the upper tier of the Bush White House to show why America needs a conservatism that is heroic...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's Peril
One of the most perilous moments in American history was the transitioning from President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden.
But, as #1 New York Times bestselling author Bob Woodward and renowned journalist Robert Costa disclose in Peril (2021), it was far more than a national political crisis. This study takes readers deep into the Trump White House, the Biden White House,...
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A woman searches desperately for the truth about the JFK assassination-and about her father's possible role in it . . .
Maureen Finn is at a White House ceremony honoring the memory of her father, Sean.
Robert Novak is in New York, watching the event on TV-his gaze fixed on Maureen.
Soon afterward, Novak approaches Maureen and hands her a photo of her dad in the company of Lee Harvey Oswald. When he tells her that her father was involved...
12) Perseverance
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FBI Special Agent Regan Manning would rather take a bullet than return to her hometown as head of protective detail for the Alaska Energy Summit. If shielding VIPs with conflicting agendas isn't enough, she also must confront ghosts of relationships past. Regan uncovers a plot that reaches as high as the White House, as far as the Middle East-and someone wants to muzzle the feisty agent forever.
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Sit back and relax while reading "Meet Me Under The Maple Tree."
Join Katy Sunbeam and her sister, Cathy, as they enjoy some good ol' fashioned fun at their grandparents' farm. Who knows, you might even learn how to call pigs while reading!
Meet Me Under The Maple Tree is Ceneca VanTassell-Luto's second published book. Her first published book is entitled The Other White House.
Both books are memoirs of her childhood memories at her grandparents'...
14) Loves Edge
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Love, scandal, betrayal and death has makeup artist Jessie Hilton reeling with shock.As Jessie comes to terms with tragic and twisted events in her life, her lifeline and best friend Dana suggests a holiday in the famous sun-soaked Greek Islands. Santorini beckons with the white houses with blue shutters that look over the sparkling waters of the Caldera. Wanting to be free from her oppressive circumstances, she agrees.It looks to be the perfect place...
15) Reckless
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Drawing on new interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally reveals the full corruption of America's Camelot.
'Reads like James Ellroy'– Daily Telegraph
'JFK didn't hesitate to employ deception, espionage and covert action' – Timothy Naftali, Wall Street Journal
John F. Kennedy's life is promoted by sentimental and careless myth-makers as pure legend. But a sinister shadow lies across it.
His death was such...
16) He Lost, He Lost
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HE LOST, HE LOST! features four major reasons that Trump lost - not just the election but popular support, based on a series of cartoons with a spirit of levity. The commentary is written in this same spirit, while providing some background to explain the comparisons made in the cartoons. The four reasons Trump lost are these: - Trump is Bats in that he is like a bat flying in the dark so he can't see what's real very well, and he's running...
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Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth once remarked that if her "Auntie Bye" had been a man, she would have been the president.
Anna Roosevelt Cowles was Theodore Roosevelt's older sister by almost four years. She was nicknamed Bamie as a child. Her siblings, nieces, and nephews later called her "Auntie Bye" because she was always on the go.
After overcoming a childhood disability, Bamie grew into a tower of strength for her immediate...
18) Summary of This Was CNN by Kent Heckenlively and Cary Poarch: How Sex, Lies, and Spies Undid the
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DISCLAIMERThis book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of This Was CNN by Kent Heckenlively and Cary Poarch: How Sex, Lies, and Spies Undid the World's Worst News Network IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:Chapter astute outline of the main contents.Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original...
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In Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raconteur to occupy the White House between the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. A superb mimic with a professional comic's sense of timing, he had an ear for a ringing phrase and could laugh at himself, relishing the opportunity to tell...
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Read the missing stories of DC's precolonial history.
Native Americans lived on the land that is now Washington, DC for several thousand years before English settlers arrived in the early 1600s. The Native people had villages, quarries and burial grounds throughout the city, ranging from what is now Rock Creek Park to the grounds of the White House. These sites speak of the history of the Anacostans and the preceding tribes who once walked the land...