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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Carlson, Brady, author.     Subjects     Presidents -- United States -- Death.     Presidents -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Carlson, Brady, author.       by title:      Dead presidents : an...         MARC Display

Dead presidents : an American adventure into the strange deaths and surprising afterlives of our nation's leaders / Brady Carlson. by Carlson, Brady, author. New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, c2016. Subjects Presidents -- United States -- Death.   Presidents -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780393243932 (hardcover) : 0393243931 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Monument man : on George Washington's transformation from mortal man to immortal icon -- Well-timed exits : on the postmortem fortunes (and misfortunes) of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, and Andrew Johnson -- The first patient : on James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Zachary Taylor, and the doctors who keep presidents alive (and occasionally make them worse) -- Farewell, Mr. President : on William Henry Harrison, Woodrow Wilson, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon, and how the presidential funeral was born -- Death trips : on the posthumous travels of James Polk, James Monroe, John Tyler, and Abraham Lincoln -- His good name : on William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, and Calvin Coolidge, and the large (and small) ways presidents are remembered -- Robots and sphinxes : on Lyndon Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, and Chester Arthur, and America's Presidential libraries -- Unintended legacies : on William Taft, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and how presidents' reputations change over time -- Eternal flame : on John F. Kennedy, the City of Dallas, and what ties them together every November 22 -- The rest of the set : on the many types of presidential obscurity and mediocrity, with Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, and Warren Harding -- Family reunion : on the Adamses, the Harrison, and presidential descendants. Requests:  0 Summary:  An entertaining exploration into the varied ways we remember and memorialize the American presidents--Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.099 Ca Checked out 06/04/2024 Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.099 Carlson Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.099 Ca Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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