First Friends

First Friends

by Gary Ginsberg

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"FIRST FRIENDS includes the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, the man with whom Lincoln once shared a bed and who did more to help him emerge from his crippling depression than anyone else; Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who played a pivotal part in America's recognition of the state of Israel in 1948; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley, a distant cousin for whom the president had deep fe

ISBN: 9781538702949

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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell

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"I loved this book! ⁦@GaryLeeGinsberg⁩ makes sense of presidents through their best friends."

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