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Title First friends : the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents / by Gary Ginsberg.
Publisher New York : Twelve, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description xvii, 391 pages : illustrations, (black and white), portraits, photographs ; 25 cm
Edition First Edition.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-375) and index.
Contents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison -- Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed -- Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House -- FDR and Daisy Suckley -- Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson -- Jack Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore -- Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo -- Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan.
Summary "FIRST FRIENDS includes the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, the man with whom Lincoln once shared a bed and who did more to help him emerge from his crippling depression than anyone else; Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who played a pivotal part in America's recognition of the state of Israel in 1948; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley, a distant cousin for whom the president had deep feelings and entrusted with highly classified strategic and diplomatic information that even his cabinet members were not aware of. These and other friendships -- including JFK and David Ormsby-Gore, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo -- populate this fresh and provocative exploration of over a dozen seminal presidential friendships"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Friendship.
Presidents -- United States -- History.
Male friendship.
Interracial friendship.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN 9781538702925
1538702924