First Daughters: Letters Between U.S. Presidents and Their Daughters

From John Adams and Thomas Jefferson through Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton, our presidents have taken time out of their public lives to write moving letters to their growing daughters. The best of these have been organized here into such topics as education, politics, friendship, marriage, parenting, and home life. Handsome and historic artwork and photographs throughout make it a book of beauty as well as substance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579123708
• ISBN13: 9781579123703
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.3" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A gathering of personal correspondence

Readers interested in first daughters have had relatively little to choose from, with all the attention being given first ladies: the Gawalts remedy this with First Daughters: Letters Between U.S. Presidents And Their Daughters, a gathering of personal correspondence drawing upon thousands of documents from the Library of Congress and Presidential archives alike. Highly recommended reading, the individual letters from Presidential fathers to their daughters are poignant, revealing, and personal: small black and white photos of the family bring each set to life.