Close calls : how eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death / Michael P. Spradlin.
Items
|
true East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department J973.099 S
Check Shelf |
|
true Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department J 973.099 SPR
Check Shelf |
|
true Southington Library - Children J Historical Non-Fiction 973.09 SPR
Check Shelf |
|
true West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Tween TWEEN 973.09 SPRADLIN
Check Shelf |
Items
|
false Avon Free Public Library - Teen TEEN 973 SPRADLIN
DUE 02-04-25 |
|
true East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department J973.099 S
Check Shelf |
|
true Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department J 973.099 SPR
Check Shelf |
|
true Southington Library - Children J Historical Non-Fiction 973.09 SPR
Check Shelf |
|
true West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Tween TWEEN 973.09 SPRADLIN
Check Shelf |
Details
- Description
- x, 116 pages ; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been stalking him for months, frontiersman Davey Crockett was the one to save him. With pacy, immediate writing and including supplemental archival photographs and archival materials, this book chronicles thrilling undertold stories of U.S. presidents' moments of bravery."-- Provided by publisher.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-110) and index.
- Audience
- Grade 7 to 8.
- Ages 9-14.
- Contents
- If they kill the general, he can't be the father of his country -- Beating the odds -- The Baltimore plot -- First you get shot, then you give a speech -- A shootout with the Capitol police -- I don't like Ike -- PT-109 -- The fall of Gerald Ford -- In the belly of the beast -- "Honey, I forgot to duck!" -- A young pilot saved from capture.
- Subject
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
- Presidents -- United States -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
- Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
- Near-death experiences -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
- Presidents.
- Presidents -- Assassination attempts.
- Near-death experiences.
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / General.
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Military & Wars.
- Presidents.
- Presidents -- Assassination attempts.
- United States.
- Genre/Form
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Informational works.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Informational works.
- Biographies.
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Added Title
- How eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death
- Other Form:
- Online version: Spradlin, Michael P., Close calls New York : Bloomsbury, 2020 9781547601394 (DLC) 2019980875
- ISBN
- 9781547600236
- 1547600233
- 9781547601394 (ebook)