Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency--21 by Paul Brandus

“Like taking a travel of the White condominium with a proficient storyteller at your side!” Why, within the mins earlier than John F. Kennedy used to be murdered, was once a blood-red carpet put in within the Oval workplace? If Abraham Lincoln by no means slept within the Lincoln bed room, the place did he sleep? Why was once one president approximately killed within the White apartment on inauguration day—and one other secretly sworn in? What fairly occurred within the scenario Room on September eleven, 2001? heritage leaps off the web page during this “riveting,” “fast-moving” and “highly interesting” e-book at the presidency and White condo in below This Roof, from award-winning White House-based journalist Paul Brandus. Reporting from the West Wing briefing room when you consider that 2008, Brandus—the so much White apartment journalist on Twitter (@WestWingReport)—weaves jointly tales of the presidents, their households, the occasions in their time—and an oft-ignored significant personality, the White condominium itself. stroll with John Adams during the still-unfinished mansion, and watch Thomas Jefferson plot to shop for the Louisiana Territory think the phobia and panic as British invaders method the mansion in 1814—and Dolley Madison frantically saves a portray of Washington Gaze out the window with Abraham Lincoln as accomplice flags flutter within the breeze at the different facet of the Potomac Be within the room as one president is secretly sworn in, and one other gambles away the White residence china in a card online game Stand by way of the presidential mattress as one First Lady—covering up her husband’s disorder from the nation—secretly makes judgements on his behalf learn the way phones, videos, radio, television replaced the presidency—and the state itself via triumph and tragedy, increase and bust, secrets and techniques and scandals, Brandus takes you to the presidential bed room, movie show, state of affairs Room, Oval workplace and extra. lower than This Roof is a “sensuous account of the heritage of either the house of the President, and the lads and girls who designed, inhabited, and embellished it. Paul Brandus captivates with unbelievable, gloriously uncooked observations.”