Dead presidents : an American adventure into the strange deaths and surprising afterlives of our nation's leaders /
An entertaining exploration into the varied ways we remember and memorialize the American presidents.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.