First friends : the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents / by Gary Ginsberg.
"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]
- Copyright: © 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. |
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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.
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- 1 current hold with 24 total copies.
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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)
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In memory of Penny Mountain from Paul & Nancy Kopac
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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)
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In Memory of Harry Adams, 2021
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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 | - |