Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393243931 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and children. . Brady Carlson is a reporter and on-air host for New Hampshire Public Radio
John Owens said Great read!. A lot of interesting facts, and more info for those who want to get to know the Presidents outside of just the obvious Lincoln, Kennedy, Washington facts (though there are stories about them as well.Great read!. True Stories of American Presidents and their Memorials - Enjoy Carlson's Adventures V. L. Wilson If you love reading about American presidents - read this new book full of humor, revelations, and visits to their libraries and burial places.This is a good read. Remember it is all about deceased presidents - part refresher course and part stories you never heard concerning each individual. I couldn't put it down it was so interesting.. Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths Frances C. Kauffman Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives is an interesting book of facts and trivia of United States Presidents.
For American presidents, there is life after deathit’s just a little weird.In Dead Presidents, Carlson takes readers on an epic trip to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials from sea to shining sea. McKinley (now known as Denali), and why we exalt dead presidents not just with public statues and iconic paintings but with kitschy wax dummies, Halloween costumes, and bobblehead dolls.With an infectious passion for history and an eye for neglected places and offbeat characters reminiscent of Tony Horwitz and Sarah Vowell, Carlson shows that the ways we memorialize our presidents reveal as much about us as it does about the men themselves. An entertaining exploration into the death stories of our nation’s greatest leadersand the wild ways we choose to remember and memorialize them.To public radio host and reporter Brady Carlson, the weighty responsibilities of being president never end. And he explains the strange afterlives of the presidents, including why “Hooverball” is still played in Iowa, why Millard Fillmore’s final resting place is next to that of funk legend Rick James, why “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?” became a running gag for Groucho Marx, why Ohio and A
Brady Carlson is the perfect road-trip companion, smart and good-hearted, a combination that we can only hope for in presidents, alive or dead.” (Robert Sullivan)“A spirited debut. J. “An amusing survey of presidential death and remembrance.” (Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe)“Brady is an exuberant guide to presidential wishes, myths, and monuments, both official and forgotten, and what dead presidents reveal about ourselves, our history, and how we imagine our past and the future.” (Virginia Prescott - New Hamp