Dear Young Friend: The Letters of American Presidents to Children (Stackpole Classics) - Softcover

Weintraub, Stanley; Weintraub, Rodelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811737446 ISBN 13: 9780811737449

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2018

Synopsis

Just a few of the words of presidential wisdom found in Dear Young Friend:

“I rejoice that you have learnt to write,…for as this is done with a goosequill, you know the value of a goose.” –Thomas Jefferson, to his granddaughter, Cornelia Randolph

“As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a bit of silly affection if were to begin now?” –Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell

“If we are successful [in the election], it will not be handsome behavior for any of my family to exhibit exultation or talk boastingly, or be in vain about it.” –Rutherford B. Hayes, to his son “Ruddy”

“The other sixty cents are for my other six grandchildren. They are not born yet.” –Theodore Roosevelt, to Marjorie Sterrett, who was collecting dimes to fund a battleship

“The John Birchers are just Ku Klux without the nightshirts.” –Harry Truman to David S. McCracken

“If you really believe, you will see them. My [Irish] ‘little people’ are very small, wear tall black stovepipe hats, green

About this title

About the Author

This is the fifth book that Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub have written or edited together. Rodelle Weintraub is now a travel consultant; Stanley Weintraub, Even Pugh Profesor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University, is a biogr

Edition details

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811737446
• ISBN 13: 9780811737449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208