Download or read book Who s Buried in Grant s Tomb written by Brian Lamb and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together this book, with assistance from the staff of C-SPAN. Heavily illustrated and with contributions from historians Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley, Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? is about the presidents' lives as much as it is about their final resting places. The book's collection of the presidents' last words, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "I have a terrific headache" to John Adams's "Thomas Jefferson still survives" offers a poignant and sometimes humorous look at the last moments of the great men. This is a great way to encounter the presidents, from the great ones to the near-forgottens. Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? belongs in the glove box of every traveler and the bedside table of every fan of the American presidency and American history.

Download or read book Who s Buried in Grant s Tomb written by Brian Lamb and published by C-Span. This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous last words: "'Tis well." "I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." "The nourishment is palatable." Which three famous people uttered one of these phrases on their deathbeds? (Hint: they all served as president of the United States). The answers to these and many other questions about the last days of U.S. presidents appear in Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? To mark its twentieth year of broadcasting, C-SPAN presented a special television series, American Presidents: Life Portraits, which focused on one president each week and visited sites related to each president--their homes, libraries, gravesites, or other significant places. The project resulted in the most comprehensive video record of the lives of the 41 men who served as president of the United States. As a complement to this project, Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? provides a guide to all 41 presidential gravesites, including sites selected for living presidents. Each chapter focuses on one president and includes birth and death dates; the time, place, and cause of death; final words; location of the gravesite and price of admission. Photos of each gravesite and original oil portraits of each president supplement the narrative, which tells about the circumstances of each man's death, funeral services, and last wishes. Starting at the end of each president's life, Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? offers a fascinatingly different approach to these famous men. The book supplies some interesting trivia, such as the last words of George Washington, William Henry Harrison, and Millard Fillmore quoted above, and highlights some neglected historical moments, including the massive crowd of 60,000 people who marched in Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession, as well as early medical advice to presidents who suffered from heart disease or cancer. Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? can also be used as a tourbook to visit the sites and learn more about the 41 U.S. presidents. This 256-page book includes a foreword by Richard Norton Smith and an afterword by Douglas Brinkley. "A wintry mix of snow, sleet, and rain covered Mount Vernon on December 12, 1799. George Washington, retired less than three years, made his usual inspection tour of the estate that morning. The following afternoon, the former president began to develop a sore throat. In the early morning hours of December 14th he awoke, feverish and having difficulty breathing. As the day wore on, Washington's lungs and throat continued to shut down. Doctors were summoned, who opened and bled the patient's veins several times in a futile effort to free his body of infection. The physicians considered performing a tracheotomy or a transfusion of lamb's blood, but Washington's condition was too weak. Nonetheless, he remained in control to the end: he gave specific orders to his secretary not to allow his body to be interred less than three days after his death. As he was taking his own pulse, George Washington died. He was 67 years old."--from the entry on George Washington Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the C-SPAN Education Foundation

Download or read book Presidential Grave Sites written by Joseph J. Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Trail of the Presidents written by Jack B. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON THE TRAIL OF THE PRESIDENTS is filled with information, little known facts & insights in the lives of our Presidents, & provides the reader with entertaining text in addition to a useful pictorial travel guide to the final resting places of our nation's Presidents, beginning with George Washington & ending with Richard M. Nixon. Vignettes of each President accompany specific biographical data. Color photographs of gravesites &/or monuments are attractively arranged to enhance the text. Featured in the text are state maps with flagged locations of the Presidential burial sites & written directions for finding the monuments. Tour maps are also included, which provide viable options of geographic regions for travelling to the various locations. An excellent resource book for students, teachers, parents & travelers, ON THE TRAIL OF THE PRESIDENTS provides a handy & informational reference guide to the resting places of the men who forged America's history. To order ON THE TRAIL OF PRESIDENTS, contact: Jones Pub., 2464 Flora, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401. (805-544-1099).

Download or read book Burial Sites of Presidents of the United States written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Monticello, Arlington National Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Washington National Cathedral, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Grant's Tomb, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Montpelier, Hollywood Cemetery, Lincoln Tomb, The Hermitage, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Princeton Cemetery, Lake View Cemetery, Albany Rural Cemetery, Crown Hill Cemetery, McKinley National Memorial, Tennessee State Capitol, Harding Memorial, Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Spiegel Grove, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Woodward Hill Cemetery, Tulip Grove, James Monroe Tomb, Old North Cemetery, Eisenhower Presidential Center, Plymouth Notch, Vermont, Hancock Cemetery, William Henry Harrison Tomb State Memorial, Notch Cemetery, Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Kinderhook Cemetery.

Download or read book Who s Buried in Grant s Tomb written by Brian Lamb and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly updated book, C-SPAN provides a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation's presidents. As much about the presidents' lives as it is about their burial sites and how to visit them, this book belongs in the glove box of every traveler and the bedside table of every American history fan. Contributions from presidential historian Richard Norton Smith and an afterword by historian Douglas Brinkley add to this unique look at the American presidency.

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Download or read book The President Is Dead written by Louis L. Picone and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Updated Edition* A fun, anecdote-filled, encyclopedic look at the circumstances surrounding the deaths of every president and a few “almost presidents,” such as Jefferson Davis. Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the most recent president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives, including stories of attempted grave robbings, reinterments, vandalism, conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths, and much more. The President Is Dead! is filled with never-before-told stories, including a suggestion by one prominent physician to resurrect George Washington from death by transfusing his body with lamb’s blood. You may have heard of a plot to rob Abraham Lincoln’s body from its grave site, but did you know that there was also attempts to steal Benjamin Harrison's and Andrew Jackson’s remains? The book also includes “Critical Death Information,” which prefaces each chapter, and a complete visitor’s guide to each grave site and death-related historical landmark. An “Almost Presidents” section includes chapters on John Hanson (first president under the Articles of Confederation), Sam Houston (former president of the Republic of Texas), David Rice Atchison (president for a day), and Jefferson Davis. Exhaustively researched, The President Is Dead! is richly layered with colorful facts and entertaining stories about how the presidents have passed. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Download or read book REGARDLESS THEY WERE THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES written by DR. RICHARD F. FELICETTI and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Dr. Richard F. Felicetti. I have always been interested in the history of the United States, especially Presidents of the United States. In the early 1960's I started and still do today, collecting Presidential Campaign Buttons. My professional career was in the Field of Education. After two years of Military Service, I began my professional career. I was a Teacher, Principal at three levels-Grade School, Junior High School and High School, Director of a Head Start Summer Program, Adjunct College Professor and Superintendent of a Grade School District. I retired as Superintendent of School District 206, Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the high school district that I graduated from in 1951. When I graduated from high school, I went on to receive my Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Northern Illinois University. I received my Ph.D. from Walden University in 1993. When I retired from education in 1994, I asked myself what can I do that would be of interest. With my hobby of collecting Presidential Campaign Buttons, I thought it would be fun, exciting and certainly interesting to visit all the gravesites of the deceased Presidents of the United States. I began my journey in 1999 and completed it in 2012. During that time, I have visited every gravesite of our deceased presidents and in some cases I have visited them on many occasions. When I visited the gravesites, I would take thirty to forty photographs of them. From the very beginning, I knew that someday I would write a book covering my thoughts and experiences that I had while on was on my journey. I have now completed my book. I have written a story about each visit to the presidential gravesites. To go along with each story, I would like to have certain photographs printed of the presidential gravesites. In addition to writing about my visits to the presidential gravesites, I have written my Introduction, Epilogue, Acknowledgements, Dedication and also About the Author. I do feel my story will create interest, make a person smile and at times bring tears to the eyes of the reader. It is a story that was heart warming for me to do and I am hopeful that I may share it with the world. I presently live in Peoria, Arizona with my wife, Sharon. As we continue to travel, we will continue to visit presidential gravesites. Every visit is different, always meaningful, moving, sometimes sad, but always tells me that my story has to be shared.

Download or read book Presidential Places written by Gary W. Ferris and published by John F. Blair, Publisher. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to historic sites related to the American presidents.

Download or read book The Everything American Presidents Book written by Martin Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everything American Presidents Book is an excellent source of information about each of the forty-three men who have served as chief executive of the United States. This exhaustive guide provides you with all you need to know about this country's leaders, including: Their early childhood and formative years The effect of the office on wives and children The triumphs and tragedies that shaped them The legacy of each man's term in office Written in an entertaining style by two experienced educators, this fun and informative guide is packed with facts and details about the life and times of each president and the major events that shaped his term. The Everything American Presidents Book has everything you need to know about the fascinating men who shaped U.S. history and policy.

Download or read book Photographs of Naval War College Presidents Grave Sites written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color photographs of gravesites of Naval War College presidents at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA, and the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, MD.

Download or read book The Lives and Graves of Our Presidents written by George Sumner Weaver and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the lives and final resting places of America's presidents, from George Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt. This book provides insight into each president's accomplishments and failures, as well as the circumstances surrounding their deaths and burials. A must-read for history buffs and presidential enthusiasts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.