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Author Name: Bob Withers
Title: The President Travels by Train - Politics & Pullmans
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: TL126
A superb history of how the President of the United States traveled by train for a hundred years much as he does by Air Force One today. With drama as great decisions of state and war are made aboard private Pullman cars. Includes data on the various private cars used by the President, funeral trains and campaign trains. 200 illustrations. Contents: Foreword; Author's Foreword; Chapter 1: Presidential Pioneers; 2. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; 3. The Reconstruction Era; 4. Twentieth-Century Travels; 5. The Golden Era is Born: The Franklin Roosevelt Years; 6. The Golden Era Matures: Truman's Whistle stopping; 7. The Golden Era's Sunset Years: The Eisenhower Presidency; 8. Modern Times; 9. The Last Miles; 10. The Cars They Rode; Appendix: Sample Train Consists; Acknowledgements and Bibliography; Index. Retail $ 49.95.
Price = 40.00 USD
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