The Presidents House The Secrets And History Of The Worlds Most Famous Home Truman Margaret by Truman Margaret 9780345444523, 9780345472489, 0345444523, 0345472489 instant download after payment.

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White
House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it
is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and
part national shrine, the White House is both the most important
address in America and the most intensely scrutinized. In this splendid
blend of the personal and historic, Margaret Truman offers an
unforgettable tour of “the president’s house” across the span of two
centuries.Opened (though not finished) in 1800 and originally dubbed a
“palace,” the White House has been fascinating from day one. In Thomas
Jefferson’s day, it was a reeking construction site where congressmen
complained of the hazards of open rubbish pits. Andrew Jackson’s
supporters, descending twenty thousand strong from the backwoods of
Kentucky and Tennessee, nearly destroyed the place during his first
inaugural. Teddy Roosevelt expanded it, Jackie Kennedy and Pat Nixon
redecorated it. Through all the vicissitudes of its history, the White
House has transformed the characters, and often the fates, of its
powerful occupants.In The President’s House, Margaret Truman takes us
behind the scenes, into the deepest recesses and onto the airiest
balconies, as she reveals what it feels like to live in the White House.
Here are hilarious stories of Teddy Roosevelt’s rambunctious children
tossing spitballs at presidential portraits–as well as a heartbreaking
account of the tragedy that befell President Coolidge’s young son,
Calvin, Jr. Here, too, is the real story of the Lincoln Bedroom and the
thrilling narrative of how first lady Dolley Madison rescued a priceless
portrait of George Washington and a copy of the Declaration of
Independence before British soldiers torched the White House in 1814