
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents
Hardcover
Political BiographiesPresidents & Heads of StateGeneral World History
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9781538702925
Publisher: Twelve
Published: Jul 6 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
- Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed: They shared a bed for four years during which Speed saved his friend from a crippling depression. Two decades later the friends worked together to save the Union.
- Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson: When Truman wavered on whether to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, his lifelong friend and former business partner intervened at just the right moment with just the right words to steer the president's decision.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley: Unassuming and overlooked during her lifetime, Daisy Suckley was in reality FDR's most trusted, constant confidant, the respite for a lonely and overworked President navigating the Great Depression and World War II
- John Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore: They met as young men in pre-war London and began a conversation over the meaning of leadership. A generation later the Cuban Missile Crisis would put their ideas to test as Ormsby-Gore became the president's unofficial, but most valued foreign policy advisor.
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