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Brady Carlson is a reporter and the on-air host of NPR's Weekend Edition for Wisconsin Public Radio. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife and children.
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Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the… di Brady Carlson
Interesting and entertaining look at how we remember, honor, or try not to remember US presidents.
Informative, humorous at times, and highlights how our perceptions change over time versus contemporary perceptions.
This book details a great deal more about the 'afterlives' portion of its title than it does presidential deaths. This vague topic leaves the author a lot of room to cast his net widely, and so he does; presidential reputations, descendants, libraries, statues, and tombs end up getting the most emphasis. The author is talented, with a fine appreciation of the striking, or just plain fun, fact which he runs across, and his asides about his travels to the various sites are amusing as well. I liked the book best when he took us down history's backroads; his extensive treatments of well-worn topics such as Jefferson and Hemings, George Washington, and JFK and Dallas were to me slightly tiresome.… (altro)
An episodic look at the presidency but only after the presidents have died. The author skips from era to era trying to find similarities in things like the way funerals are handled, how the presidents died, how their graves were marked etc. It is a bit uneven as some presidents get a lot of print (Kennedy) and others very little (Coolidge and Van Buren) for instance. I did learn a lot of trivia about various administrations. The book would be interesting to history scholars and history buffs.
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