Description
A spirited and interesting aide-memoire offering forty four brief, fascinating money owed of each and every president bringing The us’ political historical past to existence as never earlier than.
Who can identify the eight presidents earlier than Lincoln, or the eight presidents after him? Historians are inclined to shed mild on only a handful of leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and perhaps 0.5 a dozen others within dwelling reminiscence, leaving as a minimum 30 holders of workplace if no longer in complete darkness, then as a minimum in deep shadow.
Helping to carry these forgotten figures into the mild, Andrew Gimson’s illuminating money owed are accompanied via sketches from Guardian sartirical cartoonist, Martin Rowson, making this the perfect present for all fans of historical past – the skilled and the beginner, the severe and the foolish.
The Sunday Instances bestselling Gimson’s Most effective Ministers and Gimson’s Kings & Queens are additionally accessible.
