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

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

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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