Real Life at the White House: Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous ResidencePsychology Press, 2000 - 511 من الصفحات Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the White House with this richly illustrated new book on America's, if not the world's, most famous residence. Abigail Adams dried her wash in the unfinished East Room. Benjamin Harrison left the lights burning all night because he feared being shocked by the newly installed electric switches. LBJ waged an obsessive battle with the water pressure in the shower, demanding shower heads on all sides. His successor, Richard Nixon, promptly had them removed. The White House has not always been the ideal home, and as each president moved in, he transformed the house in small and large ways to fit his family's needs. Real Life at the White House celebrates two centuries of domestic life in this historic abode. In forty-two chapters - one for each administration - this stylish sourcebook takes us on an intimate tour of the daily life of each president and his family, bringing into view everything from china patterns to built-in closets (a luxury added during the Truman renovation), from plumbing to telephones (Coolidge refused to use the phone for business) from architectural structure to state dinners and family meals. Filled with hundreds of anecdotes, photographs, and presidential quotes from Washington(who never lived there but oversaw the first plans) to Clinton, this thoroughly engaging book captures the texture of presidential life while documenting the very human history of a house. |
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The Foundation Is Laid | 1 |
Creating Washington D C 17901800 | 6 |
The Great Castle | 8 |
The Leveling Principles of Democracy | 15 |
Conflagration | 25 |
The Rebuilding of the White House 18141817 | 35 |
Good Feelings and Gold Spoons | 37 |
A Dull and Stately Prison | 47 |
Tiffany Tastes | 181 |
No Room to Spare | 198 |
Ponies Snakes Raccoons and Other White House Pets | 206 |
Better Than a Bishopric | 208 |
The Reign of Enthusiasm | 219 |
Renovation | 233 |
Not Where He Wanted to Be | 236 |
Love and War | 249 |
The Peoples Choice | 58 |
Felled by a Gold Spoon | 72 |
Mourning | 79 |
Courtship | 84 |
Attention to Detail | 94 |
Tragedy | 101 |
Souvenir Hunters | 107 |
The Last Whig | 109 |
Twice Forgotten | 114 |
The Eve of Rebellion | 122 |
A Whited Sepulcure | 129 |
Civil War Washington | 141 |
Traitor to Patriot | 143 |
A Bright and Beautiful Dream | 153 |
Lemonade | 162 |
Death Watch | 173 |
Playing the Part | 263 |
For the Roaring Twenties a Man of Quiet | 273 |
Rooftop Renovation | 287 |
And Then the Crash | 289 |
Full House | 299 |
What a Life | 318 |
TV Dinners | 334 |
Style | 348 |
White House China | 366 |
Power | 368 |
Caught | 383 |
The Unelected President | 401 |
Down Home | 413 |
Perfectly Cast | 423 |