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First Friends

Hardcover • 2021 • English • 1. edition

First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents

By Gary Ginsberg

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"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 fe...Show more

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ISBN

9781538702925

Publisher

Twelve

Published year

2021

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

First Friends

Format

Hardcover

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