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In this volume the greatest and best-loved woman of her time shares the experiences - private and public - of her thirteen years since the death of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She describes in intimate detail the problems she had to solve after her husband's death, winding up his affairs and working out a pattern for her new life. That new life would include much traveling and diplomatic work around Europe, Russia and Asia for the United...
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My 21 Years in the White House, first published in 1960, is the fascinating account by Alonzo Fields of his service as head butler under 4 presidents: Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Fields (1900-1994) began his employment at the White House in 1931, and kept a journal of his meetings with the presidents and their families; he would also meet important people like Winston Churchill, Princess Elizabeth of England, Thomas Edison, John D....
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"From first hand knowledge and with access to family journals, scrapbooks, letters and photographs, Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer has written this authentic and engaging biography of an extraordinary woman--the thirty-first First Lady of the United States. Enlarged from a series of articles published in the Ladies' Home Journal, this delightful personal portrait is illustrated with many photographs, most of which have never appeared in book form. Here...
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