Book Display - Presidents

Presidents' Day is next week, so here's a book display about presidents, scandals, White House anecdotes, Air Force One, and a fascinating book of the presidential protraits from the National Portrait Gallery:

Air Force One: The Aircraft that Shaped the Modern Presidency by Von Hardesty.

Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes by Kenneth T. Walsh.

Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech that Changed America by Thurston Clarke.

The Double-Edged Sword: How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, from Washington to Clinton by Robert Shogan.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Commander-In-Chief, A&E Biography, DVD.

Executive Privilege: Two Centuries of White House Scandals by Jack Mitchell.

For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush by Christopher Andrew.

Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents by Robert Dallek.

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped Our Recent History by Kati Marton.

JFK: A Personal Story, A&E Biography, DVD.

Lincoln: A Contemporary Exploration of a President Whose Greatest War Took Place Within Himself, History Channel, DVD.

Lincoln: The Musical Soundtrack of the Film, music compact disc.

My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks.

Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol.

Portraits of the Presidents: The National Portrait Gallery by Frederick S. Voss.

Presidential Power: Unchecked & Unbalanced by Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg.

Presidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things Done by Richard Shenkman.

Richard Nixon, A&E Biography, DVD.

Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembered, History Channel, DVD.

Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence edited by Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas.

Scandals in the Highest Office: Facts and Fictions in the Private Lives of Our Presidents by Hope Ridings Miller.

Truman by David McCullough.

Truman, PBS Home Video, DVD.

Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior, President, PBS Home Video, DVD.

The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House by Douglas Brinkley.

Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J.B. West.

When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences by Eric Alterman.

The White House: The First Two Hundred Years edited by Frank Freidel and William Pencak.

White House China by Marian Klamkin

White House Glassware: Two Centuries of Presidential Entertaining by Jane Shadel Spillman.

Wounded Titans: American Presidents and the Perils of Power by Max Lerner.