White House History: Collection 4, Numbers 19-25

by William Seale (Editor)

Collection 4 contains full-color reprints of thirty-nine articles from seven issues of White House History: Presidential Horses (Issue 19), White House Kitchens and Cooking (Issue 20), President Eisenhower’s White House (Issue 21), James Hoban (Issue 22), White House Flowers (Issue 23), Life in the Lincoln White House (Issues 24 and 25). Indexed.
PRESIDENTIAL HORSES • NUMBER 19
— Foreword by William Seale
— Presidents as Horsemen by William B. Bushong
— Arlington’s Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House by Claire A. Faulkner
— Andrew Jackson’s Constitution Carriage by Marsha Mullin
— Ten Notable Horses by Gwendolyn K. White

WHITE HOUSE KITCHENS AND COOKING • NUMBER 20
— Foreword by William Seale
— Kitchen Past: Thoughts on Open Hearth Cooking for the Presidents by Alice Ross
— A Look at the White House Kitchens by Lydia Barker Tederick
— My White House Years by Roland Mesnier
— Preparation of the Menu for the Prince of Wales Dinner in 2005 by Cristeta Comerford
— White House Wines by Daniel Shanks
— Home Cooking in the White House by Barbara Haber
— A Bit of Architectural History Comes in from the Cold by William G. Allman

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S WHITE HOUSE • NUMBER 21
— Foreword by William Seale
— Dwight David Eisenhower: The First Television President by Martha Joynt Kumar
— Mamie Eisenhower’s White House Style by Edith Mayo
— President Eisenhower: Painter by Sister Wendy Beckett
— The Eisenhower Family Home in Abilene, Kansas by Dennis Medina
— “Proud Housewife”: Mamie Eisenhower Collects for The White House by Melissa Naulin
— Creating the Dwight David Eisenhower Room at Blair House by Candace S. Shireman
— An Unknown Brady Portrait of President James K. Polk and Members of His Cabinet by Clifford Krainik

JAMES HOBAN: ARCHITECT OF THE WHITE HOUSE • NUMBER 22
— Foreword by William Seale
— James Hoban: Builder of The White House by William Seale
— Dublin in the Later Eighteenth Century by Holger Hoock
— White House Irish Counterparts by Desmond Guinness
— Imagining James Hoban: Portraits of a Master Builder by William B. Bushong
— George Washington’s Bow Window: A Lost Fragment of White House Precedence Comes to Light in Philadelphia by Edward Lawler Jr.
— Four Places in Hoban’s Dublin by Bruce White


WHITE HOUSE FLOWERS: EMBELLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S TABLE • NUMBER 23
— Foreword by William Seale
— First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt’s “Colonial Garden” at the White House by Mac Keith Griswold
— James Monroe’s White House Plateau by Melissa Naulin
— Flowers for The President’s Table: State Dining Room Splendor by Nancy Clarke
— White House Brides and Envisioned Flowers: Two Nineteenth-Century White House Weddings, With an Album of other White House Brides, by Margaret Huddy
— Gifts from France in the Roosevelt White House by Amy Verone

LIFE IN THE LINCOLN WHITE HOUSE: PART I • NUMBER 24
— Foreword by William Seale
— Tad Lincoln and His Tutor Alexander Williamson by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein
— Music in Lincoln’s White House by Elise K. Kirk
— Photographs of The Lincoln White House by Lydia Tederick
— A Gallery of Individuals Major and Minor from Lincoln’s Time in The White House
— The Locomotive Tea Set: A Gift from France by John H. White Jr.

LIFE IN THE LINCOLN WHITE HOUSE: PART II • NUMBER 25
— Foreword by William Seale
— Abraham Lincoln’s White House by Harold Holzer
— The Other White House by William Seale
— The White House and Lincoln’s Assassination by Anthony S. Pitch
— The Lincoln Bedroom: Refurbishing a Famous White House Room by William G. Allman
— Photographs of Indian Delegates in the President’s “Summer House” by Clifford Krainik and Michele Krainik

530 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

William Seale was an American historian and author whose work focused on historical writing and the restoration of historic American buildings, notably state capitols. He attended Southwestern University in Texas and completed his Ph.D. at Duke University in North Carolina. An independent author since 1965, he wrote extensively on the White House and participated in the restoration of many state capitols. He was the founding editor of White House History Quarterly, the award-winning quarterly journal of the White House Historical Association, and author of The Imperial Season; The Tasteful Interlude: American Interiors Through the Camera’s Eye; Recreating the Historic House Interior; The Virginia Governor’s Mansion; Temples of Democracy; The State Capitols of the USA, and many others. With the Association, he provided commentary for At Home in the President’s Neighborhood: A Photographic Tour and authored numerous books including: The President’s House: A History; The White House Garden; The White House: The History of an American Idea; An Artist Visits the White House Past; The Night They Burned the White House: The Story of Tom Freeman’s Painting, the 23rd edition of The White House: An Historic Guide; Blair House: The President’s Guest House; A White House of Stone: Building America’s First Ideal in Architecture; and the forthcoming title Life on Lafayette Park.

Reviews

[Joseph J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume is a delight for White House fans, offering a peek into the sometimes rigorous preparation for State Dinners. I devoured this collection, learned a lot while having fun doing it!