<p><span class="deck">Back from France with an epicure’s knowledge of <span class="typestyle"> haute cuisine</span> , our third President served the most lavish dinners in White House history </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The ground rules have changed drastically since 1789. Abigail Adams, stifled in her time, would have loved being First Lady today.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A noted historian’s very personal tour of the city where so much of the American past took shape, with excursions into institutions famous and obscure, the archives that are the nation’s memory, and the haunts of some noble ghosts.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">An hour and a half of growing astonishment in the presence of the President of the United States, as recorded by a witness who now publishes a record of it for the first time</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization, in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years later, Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A novelist who has just spent several years studying Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucy Rutherfurd, and Missy LeHand tells a moving story of love: public and private, given and withheld.</span></p>
<p>Now closed to the public as part of the enlarged White House security zone, the Square has witnessed many historic moments over the last two centuries.</p>
