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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Residence
    sub title: inside the private world of the White House
  title info:
    title: Inside the private world of the White House
  name:
    name part: Brower, Kate Andersen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Anecdotes.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  abstract: America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, The Residence reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and First Family. These dedicated professionals maintain the six-floor mansion's 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, three elevators, and eight staircases, and prepare everything from hors d'oeuvres for intimate gatherings to meals served at elaborate state dinners. Over the course of the day, they gather in the lower level's basement kitchen to share stories, trade secrets, forge lifelong friendships, and sometimes even fall in love. Combining first-person anecdotes from extensive interviews with scores of White House staff members with archival research, Kate Andersen Brower tells their story. She reveals the intimacy between the First Family and the people who serve them, as well as tension that has shaken the staff over the decades. From the housekeeper and engineer who fell in love while serving President Reagan to Jackie Kennedy's private moment of grief with a beloved staffer after her husband's assassination to the tumultuous days surrounding President Nixon's resignation and President Clinton's impeachment battle, The Residence is full of surprising and moving details that illuminate day-to-day life at the White House.
  table of contents: Controlled chaos -- Discretion -- Devotion -- Extraordinary demands -- Dark days -- Sacrifice -- Race and the residence -- Backstairs gossip and mischief -- Growing up in the White House -- Heartbreak and hope.
  note: Kate Andersen Brower.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-295) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-dc
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: White House (Washington, D.C.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    topic: Family relationships
    geographic: United States
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: Presidents' spouses
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: Children of presidents
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: Household employees
    geographic: Washington (D.C.)
    topic: Social life and customs
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    geographic: Washington (D.C.)
    topic: Social life and customs
    genre: Anecdotes
  classification: F204.W5 B75 2015
  classification: 975.3
  identifier: 9780062305190 (hardcover)
  identifier: 0062305190 (hardcover)
  identifier: 2014040404
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150309
    record change date: 20151105181836.0
    record identifier: in00003536722
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng