My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives

by Gerard W. Gawalt

Book Overview

My Dear President is a historic, heartfelt collection of letters between first ladies and presidents -- including many that have never been published -- that casts a warm, new light on our leaders at their most open-hearted and vulnerable.

"I am very madly in love with you," wrote Lyndon Johnson to his future wife, Bird Taylor. James Madison sent off this plaintive line to his wife Dolley: "Every thing around and within reminds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579125522
• ISBN13: 9781579125523
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

My Dear President : Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives

How interesting and loving to see the conservative manner to which our presidents related to their wives.