Presidential Places: A Guide to the Historic Sites of U.S. Presidents

Here is a book that park rangers, curators, and librarians around the country say fits a constant request: a comprehensive guide to the historic places of the Presidents of the United States. This book will do more than simply direct you to the well-known Presidential sites, such as the places where John F. Kennedy was shot, or where Ulysses S. Grant is entombed. Included here, for the first time ever in one source, are nearly 600 sites: the places where the 46 Presidents were born, lived, went to school, worked, worshipped, were married, were inaugurated, died, were buried, and are honored. This book will direct you to the places where you can climb aboard Air Force One, or visit the former cafe where Lyndon Johnson developed his fondness for chili, and Jimmy Carter’s famous Smiling Peanut Statue. You’ll discover the California hotel where the Nixons married and the Reagans honeymooned. And the Vermont home where Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated by his own father at 2:47 a.m. one day. And the Ohio dormitory where curious students broke down the wall of Rutherford B. Hayes’s former room. And the churchyard in Virginia where George Washington first told friends he would fight for independence. The app’s geographic indices will help you to plan which sites to visit while you travel, and the trivia questions will keep your friends guessing. This book is an expanded edition of the original edition, released in 1999 (Ferris, G.W. Presidential Places: A Guide to the Historic Sites of U.S. Presidents. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair Publishers, 1999).