“A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to date” (Publishers Week

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The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americ

Barack Obama is the first African American President, but the history of African Americans in the White House long predates him. The building was built by slave

The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, and the thirty-first President.