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Kid presidents : true tales of childhood from America's presidents
The kids who grew up to be president were like a lot of other children. Some struggled with schoolwork and got into fights; others pranked their teachers and infuriated their parents. \"Kid Presidents\" features 20 true stories from the childhoods of American presidents.
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Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years
Abraham Lincoln spent a quarter of his life-from 1816 to
1830, ages 7 to 21-learning and growing in southwestern Indiana.
Despite the importance of these formative years, Lincoln rarely
discussed this period, and with his sudden, untimely death in 1865,
mysterious gaps appear in recorded history.
In Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years , Joshua Claybourn
collects and annotates the most significant scholarship from J.
Edward Murr, one of the only writers to cover this lost period of
Lincoln's life. A Hoosier minister who grew up with the 16th
president's cousins, Murr interviewed locals who knew Lincoln. Part
I features selected portions of Murr's book-length manuscript on
Lincoln's youth, published here for the first time. Part II offers
a series by Murr on Lincoln's life in Indiana, originally printed
in the Indiana Magazine of History . Part III reveals
letters between Murr and US Senator Albert J. Beveridge, a
prominent historian, about Beveridge's early manuscript of the
biography Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 .
Of all Lincoln's biographers, none knew his boyhood associates
and Indiana environment as well as Murr, whose complete Lincoln
research and scholarship have never been published-until now.
Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years preserves and
celebrates this important source material, unique for studying
Lincoln's boyhood years in Indiana.
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Mornings on horseback
Examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt from age ten to twenty-seven, focusing on the influence of his family relationships and experiences on his growth to manhood.
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Public health agencies need to be ‘Kennedy ready’: take action now to protect vaccine confidence
The Secretary of the US Department of Health & Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr is leading a political agenda against vaccination. This is undermining the delivery of life-saving vaccination programmes and provision of evidence-based information on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines for the public and health professionals. Inconsistent and conflicting messaging between health practitioners and government health agencies erodes trust in public health programmes, creating a vacuum which is often filled with mis/disinformation that presents severe consequences for families. Due to the transnational spread of diseases, we consider the implications of events in the US for routine childhood vaccination programmes in the UK. Public health agencies across the world need to be ‘Kennedy ready’; pragmatic steps must be taken to mitigate threats posed to vaccine confidence and the control of vaccine preventable diseases.
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Upstairs at the Roosevelts
Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the time Curtis, with his sister, Eleanor, and recently divorced mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, moved into his grandparents' new home-the White House-Curtis played, learned, slept, ate, and lived in one of the most famous buildings in the world with one of its most famous residents.Curtis Roosevelt offers anecdotes and revelations about the lives of the president and First Lady and the many colorful personalities in this presidential family. From Eleanor's shocking role in the remarriage of Curtis's mother to visits from naughty cousins and trips to the \"Home Farm,\"Upstairs at the Roosevelts'provides an intimate perspective on the dynamics of one of America's most famous families and those who visited, were friends, and sometimes even enemies.
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Young Abe Lincoln : the frontier days, 1809-1837
Briefly presents the life of this famous president from his birth until the age of twenty-eight.
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A child of the revolution : William Henry Harrison and his world, 1773-1798
Indian wars in early Ohio as seen through the eyes of a future president The American Revolution gave birth to a nation, forever changed the course of political thought, and shattered and transformed the lives of the citizens of the new republic. An iconic figure of the Old Northwest, governor, Indian fighter, general in the War of 1812, and ultimately president, William Henry Harrison was one such citizen. The son of a rich Virginia planter, Harrison saw his family mansion burned and his relatives scattered. In the war’s aftermath, he rejected his inherited beliefs about slavery, religion, and authority, and made an idealistic commitment to serve the United States. This led him to the United States Army, which at the time was a sorry collection of drunks and derelicts who were about to be reorganized in the face of a serious conflict with the Indian nations of the Ohio valley. Author Hendrik Booraem follows Harrison as Gen. Anthony Wayne attempted to rebuild the army into a fighting force, first in Pittsburgh, then in Cincinnati and the forests of the Northwest. A voracious reader of history and the classics, Harrison became fascinated with the archaeology and ethnology of the region, even as his military service led to a dramatic showdown with the British army, which had secretly been aiding the Indians.
By age 21, Harrison had achieved almost everything he had set his heart on—adventure, recognition, intellectual stimulation, and even a small measure of power. He was the youngest man to put his name to the Treaty of Greenville, which ended Indian control over Ohio lands and opened the way for development and statehood. He even won a bride: Anna Symmes, the Eastern-educated daughter of pioneer landowner John Cleves Symmes. When Congress voted to downsize the army, 25-year-old Harrison, now a family man, fumbled for a second career.
Drawing on a variety of primary documents, Booraem re-creates military life as Lieutenant Harrison experienced it—a life of duels, discipline, rivalries, hardships, baffling encounters with the natives and social relations between officers and men, military and civilians, and men and women.
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Too Close to the Sun
FDR's grandson describes his strange and wondrous coming-of-age in the Roosevelt White Houseand the perils of a public childhood.
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