This book clearly identifies, describes, and provides access information about nearly one hundred publicly accessible sites that commemorate and interpret the Presidents of the United States. It also provides detailed maps to assist visitors in actually finding sites that they might wish to visit, as well as short lists of books, articles, and web sites that help readers expand upon the information presented in the site descriptions. Homes and Libraries of the Presidents is also the most frequently revised of the available presidential guidebooks; the current edition, in fact, contains information that was obtained only days before the book went to press.
As noted in previous editions, there is no way for the average citizen to get closer to the intimate environments, material possessions, or creations of American presidents than to visit their homes or the museums and libraries that house and interpret their lives and legacies. Homes and Libraries of the Presidents will continue to lead the many curious and inquisitive travelers to those places that open windows onto the personal lives of some of America's most important public figures, their families, and their times.
360 pages.
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