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Close Calls: How Eleven US Presidents Escaped from the Brink of Death

By Michael P. Spradlin

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2020
ISBN
9781547601394, 2019019164, 2019980875, 9781547600236
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4675450 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-28 09:25:49
HistoryJNF025130JNF025170Juvenile Nonfiction

Description

Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been stalking him for months, frontiersman Davey Crockett was the one to save him. With pacy, immediate writing and including supplemental archival photographs and archival materials, this book chronicles thrilling undertold stories of U.S. presidents' moments of bravery.

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