President's Week Reads

Somehow President's Week turned into a terrific sales event for stores as well as the perfect long getaway weekend with kids. Spring break often comes too late so the long break in February offers a perfect time to escape the winter doldrums. Here are some reads about American presidents, their lives, wives and history, plus a novel about being first lady that make for good reading on cold February days.

Inventing George Washington: America's founder, in mythand memory by Edward G. Lengel (on order, place your hold today)
An entertaining and erudite history that offers a fresh look at America's first founding father, the creation of his legend, and what it means
for our nation and ourselves.

The promise by Jonathan Alter
One of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut.

My Father at 100 by Ron Reagan (on order, place your hold today)
Ronald Reagan's son presents an assessment of his father's life.

A Being So Gentle: The frontier love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
by Patricia Brady (on order, place your hold today)
Chronicles the forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson during a tumultuous period in American history.

American Wife: a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

An epic and intimate fictional story of an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances when she becomes firstlady.