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The First Ladies Fact Book

The Childhoods, Courtships, Marriages, Campaigns, Accomplishments, and Legacies of Every First Lady from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

America’s first ladies have captured the hearts and attention of its citizens ever since the country’s humble beginnings. Black Dog & Leventhal is proud to announce the release of the revised edition of the hit book THE FIRST LADIES FACT BOOK.

Packed with information and surprising facts, THE FIRST LADIES FACT BOOK combines the breadth of a textbook with the intimacy of a biography. This revised and updated paperback edition includes all-new information on Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Betty Ford.

One thousand photographs and illustrations and hundreds of sidebars and fast facts make it a fun, easy, and informative read. Each chapter features information about the first lady’s personal accomplishments, career, style of dress, and decorating preferences as well as a look at her life after the presidency.

 

In THE FIRST LADIES FACT BOOK, readers will find out which First Lady:
*Had the most children *Served as a delegate to the United Nations *Was accused of looting the White House *Was a professional dancer *Wasn’t born in the United States
*Never held a job or cooked a meal *Ran for President *Took her infant daughter on a job interview *Never set foot in Washington, D.C. *and much more


A favorite of history buffs, political junkies, and students looking for something more interesting than a textbook, THE FIRST LADIES FACT BOOK will delight readers young and old with a behind-the-scenes look at the nation’s first hostess and the president’s first ally.

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Academy Awards

And the Oscar goes to…. Film critics and experts Jim Piazza and Gail Kinn share their insider knowledge of movies and Hollywood with readers in… THE ACADEMY AWARDS is the definitive guide to the Oscars. This unofficial history includes EVERY nominee and winner in EVERY category, plus red carpet highlights, more than 500 photos, insightful [...]

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Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide

The Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2012 is here! (Click on the above image to buy the 2012 price guide) Terry Kovel and daughter Kim know their stuff—after all, the Kovel family has published 100 books related to antiques and collectibles over the past five decades! The original Kovels’ Price Guides and catalogs were [...]

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The New York Times Story of the Yankees

The New York Times Story of the Yankees **Coming May 2012** — Click here to pre-order Experience a century of the pride, power, and pinstripes of the Yankees, Major League Baseball’s most successful team, as told through the stories of their hometown newspaper, The New York Times. The New York Yankees are the most storied [...]

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The American Experience

The American Experience The History and Culture of the United States through Speeches, Letters, Essays, Articles, Poems, Songs, and Stories An essential collection of the 569 documents, which explores the events, both major and minor, that have shaped our nation. A celebration of our American history and culture, The American Experience takes you on a [...]

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The Louvre: All the Paintings

JOIN OUR WIN A TRIP TO PARIS SWEEPSTAKES NOW (Click the image below to enter)! Contest runs until February 28, 2012 The Library Journal says of THE LOUVRE: ALL THE PAINTINGS: “Nothing can replace a trip to the Louvre itself, but this is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn more about individual paintings and the collection [...]

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Knit Your Own Cat

Knit Your Own Cat: Easy-to-Follow Patterns for 16 Frisky Felines By Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne Why is a company called Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers publishing a book on cats, you ask? Well, after the marvelous success and universal praise for the bestseller Knit Your Own Dog, we were irresistibly compelled to follow-up with the [...]

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Spine-Tingling Encounters

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to read a full short story from Demons! Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead “In Zombies you’ll find the widest, wildest, brain-popping cavalcade of multi-perspective zombie lore ever assembled—a soup-to-nuts of the shambling dead, from shadowy beginning to dear-God-please-be-merciful end—in a single volume so massive, it can [...]

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Complete Civil War

“This is a fascinating and riveting look at the most important event in American history as seen through the eyes of an institution that was emerging as the most important newspaper in American history. In the pages, the Civil War seems new and fresh, unfolding day after anxious day, as the fate of the republic [...]

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Leonardo’s Notebooks

Leonardo’s Notebooks "Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" —Leonardo da Vinci Culled from more than 7,000 pages of sketches and writings found in various rare books, papers, and other resources throughout the world, Leonardo’s Notebook’s presents, for the first time, an exhaustive collection of the [...]

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