All The Presidents Children It was an instant New York Times bestseller and reached number one on Amazon.com. Drawing on unpublished diaries, presidential letters, discussions and interviews with six presidents and first ladies, as well as nineteen of the living presidential children, Wead tracks the lives of the nation's most famous offspring in this groundbreaking work. See Doug Wead biography for a better description of how this series on first families began, Doug Wead in the news for print new stories and television segments featuring the author and Doug Wead tapes, cd's and books to order. You can correspond directly with the author at Contact Doug Wead. For a complete resource on Presidents and their families, see Doug Wead's Upstairs at the White House. Read Doug Wead's Blog i.e.  Glenn Hauman and Lies on the Internet. Or visit Doug Wead author profile at Simon and Schuster. Doug Wead at Mystic Art.

"Massively researched, superbly written, this is the long-awaited study of a difficult subject often hidden by presidents and their families. It is a piece of American history that solves many mysteries."

- Steven Lee Carson,
Chairman, White House Conference on Presidential Children

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The Raising of a President The second volume in Doug Wead's twenty year, ongoing trilogy on the first families. It offers an account of the lives of the parents of our chief executives and is a companion book to the instant New York Times bestseller All the Presidents' Children. In The Raising of a President Doug Wead goes where no presidential biographer has gone before: straight to the childhood homes of America's greatest leaders. Wead analyzes the types of families in which they were reared, and offers fascinating psychological profiles based on his findings. Using presidential letters and personal correspondence -- as well as notes from his own private conversations with six presidential families -- Wead brilliantly portrays the early lives, loves, and political awakenings of George Washington; John Adams and the rest of America's first dynasty; Lincoln, who never betrayed his humble roots; Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, each raised in prominent political households; and the once and future commanders in chief Bush. See Glenn Hauman and lies on the internet

"Epic! A remarkable perspective, with unforgetable, haunting stories. One sees the American presidents through a more intimate lens. The true inside story of our most powerful families."

- Peter Schweizer,
Hoover Institute, Stanford University;
author of The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty