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Guest Of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, And The White House Dinner That Shocked A Nation (2012)

by Deborah Davis(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1439169810 (ISBN13: 9781439169810)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Atria Books

review 1: A most interesting book. The author gives us a lot of background information on the lives of Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington. Then she goes on to tell us about the first time a president of the United States invites a black man to have dinner with him and his family in the White House. The ensuing furor was damaging to the careers of both men. And it was still a cause celebre years later.
review 2: This is one of my favorite newer Roosevelt books I have in my collection. What a great story and even though the actual event was only moments, Davis gives us a grand view of the two men and the culture of the day. She weaves the parallel lives of these two extraordinary men and all their similarities and differences. This is a wonderful read and one that... more should not be passed by seeing 100 years later we have an African American family living (not just eating) in the White House. less

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