To Live on Lafayette Square: Society and Politics in the President's Neighborhood

To Live on Lafayette Square: Society and Politics in the President's Neighborhood by William Seale Audiobook
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Sounded ID: 9781950273041

ISBN: 9781950273041

Publication Date: August 05, 2019

Publisher: Author's Republic

Language: English

Author Name: William Seale

Narrator Name: William Seale III

Studio Narrated Audiobook 6 hrs 40 mins | BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Historical

To Live on Lafayette Square: Society and Politics in the President's Neighborhood

Author
William Seale
Publisher
Author's Republic
Narrator
William Seale III

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

Lafayette Square, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, was once the most fashionable neighborhood in Washington. In its row houses and mansions lived cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, and many of the most memorable characters in the history of the nation. Presidents casually walked across the park in the middle of the Square to visit and talk politics with their neighbors. As in any neighborhood, there were friendships and romances, secrets and scandals. Eventually the old houses were allocated to other uses and plans were made to demolish them all until, in the early ...

Lafayette Square, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, was once the most fashionable neighborhood in Washington. In its row houses and mansions lived cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, and many of the most memorable characters in the history of the nation. Presidents casually walked across the park in the middle of the Square to visit and talk politics with their neighbors. As in any neighborhood, there were friendships and romances, secrets and scandals. Eventually the old houses were allocated to other uses and plans were made to demolish them all until, in the early 1960s, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, new residents in the White House, prevailed—they were determined to preserve them.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. 00TitleToLiveOnLafayetteSquare

0 mins 31 secs

2. 00.1PrologueToliveonLafayetteSquare

11 mins 46 secs

3. 01BricksMortar

22 mins 36 secs

4. 02TraditionInnovation

40 mins 26 secs

5. 03PastoralDays

32 mins 30 secs

6. 04ThePlaceToLive

42 mins 41 secs

7. 05TheSplendidSquare

55 mins 16 secs

8. 06History

41 mins 01 secs

9. 07TheGardenRenewed

44 mins 17 secs

10. 08TheEndsBegins

49 mins 35 secs

11. 09Resurrection

47 mins 18 secs

12. 10Epilogue

7 mins 44 secs

13. 00Closing--TitleToLiveOnLafayetteSquare

0 mins 10 secs

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