TIME Inside the White House: The History, Secrets and Style by The Editors of TIME

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By The Editors of TIME

1600 Pennsylvania road is likely to be the world's most famed handle, and it really is no usual domestic because it is the handle of the White condominium, the legitimate place of dwelling of the President of the us. it's either worldwide command middle and family members sanctuary, steeped in wealthy background and the world's so much public inner most domestic. From the West Wing and the Oval place of work, the place lots of the enterprise of governing the rustic occurs, to the East Wing, which has develop into the guts of strength for the 1st woman, the White home is a global unto itself, located on 18 acres, with over a hundred rooms, hundreds of thousands of staffers, its structures and infrastructure, and a few of the main advanced and extreme defense within the complete world.

Now, in an all-new precise version, TIME contained in the White condo: The historical past, secrets and techniques and magnificence of the World's most famed Home, readers move contained in the White condominium in phrases and photographs and examine of the wealthy background of America's apartment. the 1st presidential couple to inhabit the home in 1800 – John and Abigail Adams – moved right into a domestic with basically six inhabitable rooms. yet through the years and according to presidential whims and wishes, the altering instances, and simply as the US has grown and advanced, so has the White residence. full of diagrams, images and tales that chart the background of this symbolic apartment, TIME contained in the White House is an unique invitation to view this condominium like by no means before.

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