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Best Little Stories from the White House

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If you want lively vignettes drawn from the life of America's White House residents, this light-hearted look at White House behind-the-scenes action is for you. From an automatic tennis ball server presented to Boris Yeltsin at his first state dinner at the White House to funny invitations, strange delegations, the antics and children and parents, and more, Best Little Stories From The White House's second edition reveals much about the Presidents, their families, visitors to the White House.

Poorly written. Simply putting an exclamation point after a sentence doesn't make it astounding! Or Exciting! And the overuse of quotation marks gives this "book" an odd feel. Poorly written and poorly researched. Stay away...or better yet, buy my copy from me. It's too small for the birdcage.

If you want lively vignettes drawn from the life of America's White House residents, this light-hearted look at White House behind-the-scenes action is for you. From an automatic tennis ball server presented to Boris Yeltsin at his first state dinner at the White House to funny invitations, strange delegations, the antics and children and parents, and more, Best Little Stories From The White House's second edition reveals much about the Presidents, their families, visitors to the White House.

I have to agree with the other reviewers of this book. While the stories are at times interesting and a great history lesson, the writing is akin to that of a high school student's term paper. I recommend passing on this book.

Even when the anecdotes were interesting, the writing style was poor (re-stating something several times won't make it more interesting). A compilation is supposed to make the anecdotes more interesting and slickly written, but I found that in the cases where I had read the source of his information, the source was better. The book was a gift, so I read the whole thing, but only out of duty.

Great book about the White House and those who lived there. Easy read and very interesting stories. I enjoyed it a lot.