...From Farm House to the White House
...From Farm House to the White House

Author: William M. Thayer

Publisher:

Published: 1890

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13:

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A biography of George Washington, the general who led the American army in the Revolutionary War and then became the first president of the United States.

From Classroom to White House
From Classroom to White House

Author: James McMurtry Longo

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-11-28

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0786488468

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President Eisenhower, who was not always the best student, once wrote, "One cannot always read a man's future in the record of his younger days." Indeed, this review of the classroom experiences of presidents and first ladies from George and Martha Washington to Barack and Michelle Obama reveals that few made model students. Teachers reported that John F. Kennedy could "seldom locate his possessions," found George H.W. Bush "somewhat eccentric," and dubbed a sixth-grade Bill Clinton "a motormouth." In addition to chronicling the school days of these historic figures, this volume also relates their teaching experiences, the educational issues they addressed during their White House years, and intricacies of education at their time in history, providing an informative overview of American schooling over time.

Grant
Grant

Author: William S. McFeely

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002-09-17

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 0393342875

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"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."—Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country."—C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography."—Justin Kaplan, The New Republic