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and 35th President of the United States

This book charts the enormous growth of presidential power from its lowly state in the late nineteenth century to the imperial presidency of the twentieth

like Barack Obama

mostly unknown encounters that Abraham Lincoln had with his constituents

Written by David Small

Black is the Body book store and 35th President of theIn these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Emily Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new