Close Calls : : how Eleven US Presidents Escaped From the Brink of Death
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Call Number: Y 973.099 Sp, Kids Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Political Figures / Miscellaneous
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If they kill the general, he can't be the father of his country -- Beating the odds -- The Baltimore plot -- First you get shot, then you give a speech -- A shootout with the Capitol police -- I don't like Ike -- PT-109 -- The fall of Gerald Ford -- In the belly of the beast -- "Honey, I forgot to duck!" -- A young pilot saved from capture.
"Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been stalking him for months, frontiersman Davey Crockett was the one to save him. With pacy, immediate writing, this book chronicles thrilling undertold stories of U.S. presidents' moments of bravery."-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 116 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781547600236
1547600233
SUBJECTS
Presidents -- United States -- Miscellanea
Presidents -- United States -- Miscellanea.
Presidents -- History. -- United States
Near-death experiences.