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

Ginsberg, Gary, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538702925
  • ISBN: 1538702924
  • Physical Description: xvii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Twelve, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-375) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Friendship.
Presidents > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.
Male friendship.
Interracial friendship.

Available copies

  • 24 of 24 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 24 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 302.34 GINSBER (Text) 50686015737781 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Dover Area Community Library Adults 302.34 GIN Nonfiction (Text) 34217000887349 Adult Area Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 973.099 GIN (Text) 92524728 GFWM Main Room Available -
Highland Community Library 302.34 GIN (Text) 35610000985858 HGHM Non-Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 302.34 Ginsberg Politics (Text) 39427103605846 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Martinsburg Community Library 302.34 Gin (Text)
Memorial: In memory of Penny Mountain from Paul & Nancy Kopac
1OMAR00089105L Adult Nonfiction Available -
Mason-Dixon Public Library Adults FIRST Biography (Text) 34262000760807 Main Room Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 302.34 GIN 2021 (Text)
Memorial: In Memory of Harry Adams, 2021
31001101828508 Adult Non Fiction Available -
Meyersdale Public Library 302.34 GINSBERG (Text) 30512005386899 MEYM Non-Fiction Available -
New Oxford Library 973.099 GINSBERG (Text) 35740635774243 Nonfiction Available -


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