The president is dead!
Subtitle: the extraordinary stories of the presidential deaths, final days, burials, and beyond
By: Louis L. Picone
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781510703766
Subjects: Presidents; Death; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Bloodletting and blistering; title: George Washington: December 14, 1799; title: Thomas Jefferson: July 4, 1826; title: John Adams: July 4, 1826; title: James Monroe: July 4, 1831; title: James Madison: June 28, 1836; title: William Henry Harrison: April 4, 1841; title: Andrew Jackson: June 8, 1845; title: John Quincy Adams: February 23, 1848; title: James Knox Polk: June 15, 1849; title: Zachary Taylor: July 9, 1850; title: Part II. The deadliest decade; title: John Tyler: January 18, 1862; title: Martin Van Buren: July 24, 1862; title: Abraham Lincoln: April 15, 1865; title: James Buchanan: June 1, 1868; title: Franklin Pierce: October 8, 1869; title: Part III. Through the end of the Victorian Era; title: Millard Fillmore: March 8, 1874; title: Andrew Johnson: July 31, 1875; title: James Abram Garfield: September 19, 1881; title: Ulysses Simpson Grant: July 23, 1885; title: Chester Alan Arthur: November 18, 1886; title: Rutherford Birchard Hayes: January 17, 1893; title: Benjamin Harrison: March 13, 1901; title: Part IV. Evolution of the mega funeral; title: William McKinley: September 14, 1901; title: Grover Cleveland: June 24, 1908; title: Theodore Roosevelt: January 6, 1919; title: Warren Gamaliel Harding: August 2, 1923; title: Woodrow Wilson: February 3, 1924; title: William Howard Taft: March 8, 1930; title: Calvin Coolidge: January 5, 1933; title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: April 12, 1945; title: John Fitzgerald Kennedy: November 22, 1963; title: Part V. Pomp, circumstance, and predictability; title: Herbert Clark Hoover: October 20, 1964; title: Dwight David Eisenhower: March 28, 1969; title: Harry S Truman: December 26, 1972; title: Lyndon Baines Johnson: January 22, 1973; title: Richard Milhous Nixon: April 22, 1994; title: Ronald Wilson Reagan: June 5, 2004; title: Gerald Rudolph Ford: December 26, 2006; title: Presidents still with us; title: Part VI. Almost presidents; title: John Hanson, first president under the Articles of Confederation: November 22, 1783; title: Sam Houston, twice president of the Republic of Texas: July 26, 1863; title: David Rice Atchison, president for a day: January 26, 1886; title: Jefferson Finis Davis, only president of the Confederate States of America: December 6, 1889.