Presidential retreats
Subtitle: where they went and why they went there
By: Peter Hannaford
Edition: 1st Threshold Editions trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Threshold Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781451627145; 9781451627152
Subjects: Guidebooks; Historic sites; Presidents; Travel; Local History; Homes and haunts; Dwellings; Vacation homes; Biography; History
Description: Looks at the retreats and homes where each president spent his downtime, providing historical context on why these sites were chosen by each Commander-in-Chief.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia; title: John Adams, Adams National Historical Park, Massachusetts; title: Thomas Jefferson, Poplar Forest, Virginia; title: James Madison, Montpelier, Virginia; title: James Monroe, Ash Lawn-Highland, Virginia; title: John Quincy Adams, Adams National Historical Park, Massachusetts; title: Andrew Jackson, The Hermitage, Tennessee; title: Martin Van Buren, Lindenwald, Ohio; title: William Henry Harrison, Berkeley Plantation, Virginia; title: John Tyler, Sherwood Forest, Virginia; title: James K. Polk, The Polk Home, Tennessee; title: Zachary Taylor, Springfield, Kentucky; title: Millard Fillmore, The Fillmore Mansion, New York; title: Franklin Pierce, The Pierce Manse, Massachusetts; title: James Buchanan, Wheatland, Massachussetts; title: Abraham Lincoln, 16th The Lincoln Cottage, Washington D.C.; title: Andrew Johnson, The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, Tennessee; title: Ulysses S. Grant, hometown; Grant's Tomb, New York; title: Rutherford B. Hayes, The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Ohio; title: James A. Garfield, The James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Ohio; title: Chester A. Arthur, The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City; title: Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland Park, New Jersey; title: Benjamin Harrison, The Benjamin Harris Presidential Site, Indiana; title: William McKinley, The William McKinley Library & Museum, Ohio; title: Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, New York; title: William Howard Taft, The William Howard Taft National Historic Site, Ohio; title: Woodrow Wilson,The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, Ohio; title: Warren Harding, The Harding Home, Ohio; title: Calvin Coolidge, Plymouth Notch, Vermont; title: Herbert Hoover, Camp Rapidan, Virginia; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warm Springs, Georgia; title: Harry Truman, The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Missouri; title: Dwight D, Eisenhower, The Eisenhower Historical Site, Pennsylvania; title: John F. Kennedy, Glen-Ora, Virginia; title: Lyndon B. Johnson, The LBJ Ranch, Texas; title: Richard M. Nixon, Key Biscayne, Florida; title: Gerald R. Ford, Vail, Colorado; title: James E. Carter, The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, Georgia; title: Ronald Reagan, Rancho del Cielo, California; title: George H.W. Bush, Kennebunkport, Maine; title: William Clinton, The William J. Clinton Presidential Library, Arkansas; title: George W. Bush, Prairie Chapel Ranch, Texas; title: Barack Obama, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; title: Camp David, Maryland