Product Description: New edition features never-before-published photographs of rooms decorated during the Obama and Bush presidencies. Published in conjunction with the White House Historical Association. Ever since the White House was built over 200 years ago, its decor has been of great interest to visitors, historians, and anyone interested in our nation's history and how it was manifested in our country's most famous residence...read more

"Presents more than 200 years of the history of life in the White House with hundreds of pictures of past and present first families, children and pets; workers and daily routines; State occasions and public celebrations."

Product Description: For nearly two centuries, the White House has served as the residence of our nation's president and his family. John and Abigail Adams were the first residents, and each family ever since has been encouraged, through congressional appropriations and private contributions, to make the White House a comfortable home and to provide the necessities for handsomely carrying out its additional functions as nexus for state ceremony and entertaining...read more

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Surveys a history of White House furnishings and the changing tastes of the first families.

Looks at more than 200 years of porcelains purchased for presidential entertaining