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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Drama revolves around the President, Josiah Bartlet, and his staff at the White House, including his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, and recovering boozehound Leo McGarry who sacrifices his marriage to his career. Among the global crises Bartlet faces are a nuclear showdown between India and Pakistan, an American plane shot down by terrorists and another plane shot down by...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Headed by President Josiah Bartlet, demonstrates that office politics are the same everywhere; things just have greater repercussions when your office happens to be the White House. Stories surround the President; his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, recovering boozehound Leo McGarry, who sacrifices his marriage to his career. Among the global crises Bartlet must finesse are...
Publisher
National Cable Satellite Corp
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Provides a documentary-style look behind the scenes at White House operations and examines the history of the president's home. Featured are portions of a tour conducted by First Lady Laura Bush, interviews with White House staff and conversations with historians about the significance of the residence, furnishings, and rooms.--Program description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When three students, feeling out of place during a White House tour, bump into a painting of George Washington, the President comes to life and leads them on an insider's tour, during which they meet many former residents.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Have you ever wondered what exactly goes on inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Sure, the president of the United States works and resides there, but do you know who helps keep this historic house running? It’s no simple task, especially when there are important state events and foreign dignitaries—in addition to presidential pups, mischievous children, and even a couple of ghosts. And its Residence workers and first ladies...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, The Residence reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and First...
11) Brick by brick
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Discusses those who labored building the White House and then bought their freedom with the money.
13) White House down
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look at what the presidents chose to eat, how the food was...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--
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