{"product_id":"first-friends-9781538702925","title":"First Friends","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER! \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY \u003c\/i\u003e'BEST BOOKS OF 2021' PICK! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the bestselling tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Presidents Club\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePresidential Courage\u003c\/i\u003e, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAbraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed\u003c\/b\u003e: 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. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHarry Truman and Eddie Jacobson:\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFranklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley\u003c\/b\u003e: 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJohn Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore: \u003c\/b\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eThese and other friendships—including \u003cb\u003eThomas Jefferson and James Madison\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFranklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eBill Clinton and Vernon Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e—populate this fresh and provocative exploration of a series of seminal presidential friendships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublishing history teems with books by and about Presidents, First Ladies, First Pets, and even First Chefs. Now former Clinton aide Gary Ginsberg breaks new literary ground on Pennsylvania Avenue and provides fresh insights into the lives of the men who held the most powerful political office in the world by looking at the friends on whom they relied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Friends\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging, serendipitous look into the lives of Commanders-in-Chief and how their presidencies were shaped by those they held most dear.","brand":"Little, Brown \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52091021001047,"sku":"9781538702925","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538702925.jpg?v=1762274012","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/first-friends-9781538702925","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}