Close Calls: How Eleven US Presidents Escaped from the Brink of Death

by Michael P. Spradlin

Book Overview

Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been stalking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1547600233
• ISBN13: 9781547600236
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9