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Air Force One : a history of the presidents and their planes

Title: Air Force One : a history of the presidents and their planes / Kenneth T. Walsh.
Author: Walsh, Kenneth T.
Publication: New York : Hyperion, ©2003.

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Description

xvi, 261 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

A history of Air Force One includes anecdotes from former presidents and officials to reveal sixty years of presidential travel, offering insight into the personalities of the last twelve presidents while on board the aircraft.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-251) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Robert Dallek -- The role of Air Force One -- The Air Force One experience -- Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower : the first "flying Presidents" -- John F. Kennedy : the prince and the power -- Lyndon B. Johnson : king of the cowboys -- Richard Nixon : the solitary brooder -- Gerald Ford : everyman -- Jimmy Carter : the parsimonious preacher -- Ronald Reagan : America's leading man -- George Herbert Walker Bush : the foreign-policy president -- Bill Clinton : the baby boomer -- George W. Bush : Commander in Chief -- Appendix: Code names used by the Secret Service.

ISBN

1401300049
9781401300043
0786888199
9780786888191

LCCN

2002038751

OCLC

ocm50851673
50851673
SCSB-1287909

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library