The White House : : Actors and Observers

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Essays derived from papers delivered at a 200th anniversary symposium sponsored by the White House Historical Association.
Introduction : like no other house / William Steele -- Abigail Adams as first lady / Edith B. Gelles -- Dolley Madison creates the White House / Catherine Allgor -- The earliest photographs of the White House, 1840s / Clifford Krainik -- The Lincoln White House : stage for the Republic's survival / Jean Baker -- Images of the Executive Mansion, 1861-1865 / Betty C. Monkman -- The gold in the Gilded Age / Richard Norton Smith -- Frances Benjamin Johnston's White House / William B. Bushong -- Images of the White House, 1890-1910 / Lydia Barker Tederick -- Theodore Roosevelt's White House / John Allen Gable -- Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt : partnership in politics and crises / Allida Black -- White House news photographers and the White House / Dennis Brack -- Presidential reality : "if it hasn't happened on television, it hasn't happened" / Martha Joynt Kumar.

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Great submitted by ljq on July 18, 2011, 5:08pm I really enjoyed this book as it gives an intimate look at the White House.

PUBLISHED
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: xxii, 214 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
155553547X :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Seale, William.
White House Historical Association.

SUBJECTS
White House (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- Congresses.
White House (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
Presidents -- Congresses.
Presidents -- Pictorial works.
Presidents -- Family -- Congresses.
Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.