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American Presidents And Their Best Friends
Algonquin Books
January 1997
On Sale: January 8, 1997
176 pages ISBN: 1565121430 EAN: 9781565121430 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," Harry Truman
once said. Maybe that's why, for many of our Republic's 220
years, there have been two top dogs at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue--one with two legs and one with four. FIRST DOGS, by veteran journalist Roy Rowan and photo
researcher Brooke Janis, tells the whole doggone story, from
the days before there was a White House to the dog days of
Bill Clinton's presidency. FIRST DOGS is packed with
drawings and paintings from early American history, plus
photographs of canines from Abraham Lincoln's Fido to Zeke,
the cocker spaniel that the Clintons owned in Arkansas.
Laddie Boy, Fala, Pushinka, King Timahoe, and Liberty are
just a few of the four-footed goodwill ambassadors who have
left their mark on the American consciousness (and not just
the East Lawn). "FIRST DOGS is a doggone delight that will leave you sitting
up and begging for more. I give it four paws up."--Dan
rather, CBS Evening News; "Intriguing information and
fascinating trivia."--Chattanooga Times.
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