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Presidential Retreats: Where the Presidents Went and Why They Went There
Where do you go to relax when you’re the leader of the free world? Even the president needs to get away from it all sometimes. From George Washington to Barack Obama, each of our presidents has sought solace from the tightly structured daily routines of the White House. As Ronald Reagan once said of his California ranch, “I do some of my best thinking there.” Peter Hannafo...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
October 30th 2012
by Threshold Editions
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Oct 24, 2012
Kristin (Kritters Ramblings)
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Call me a dork - but every once in a while I love to read a little non fiction about presidents and history. Maybe it is because I live right next door to Washington, D.C. Or maybe because I like to think that the President and his family are regular people and have a story beyond the White House. This book fulfilled all my nerdy needs and at just the right time - middle of a crazy election season!
Call me a dork - but every once in a while I love to read a little non fiction about presidents and history. Maybe it is because I live right next door to Washington, D.C. Or maybe because I like to think that the President and his family are regular people and have a story beyond the White House. This book fulfilled all my nerdy needs and at just the right time - middle of a crazy election season!
Interesting read, but the title's a little misleading. A chapter on each president, how he got there, what his term was like, and only then a bit about all of his travels, official and "vacation." Good refresher for that "American History" class you slept through.
Worse than eating sawdust and very opinionated.
A good book to keep in a place where you might want to read only a few minutes at a time. Most are fairly short vignettes of presidential summer homes and retreats. Interesting reading.
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