David C. King

Have Fun with the Presidents (eBook, PDF)

Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It's important to learn about the U.S. presidents, but it's even better to have fun while doing it. Have Fun with the Presidents is filled with activities, recipes, games, puzzles, profiles, quotes, and fascinating facts, about all 42 American presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush. You will learn all kinds of interesting things about the presidents, their families, and the times in which they lived, but this is much more than just a book of facts. The games and activities in Have Fun with the Presidents will give you a better understanding of each president's important contributions, interesting hobbies, and unique personality. In Have Fun with the Presidents you will learn that * Herbert Hoover and his wife spoke Chinese in the White House as a way of maintaining their privacy * Dwight Eisenhower was an enthusiastic cook who loved grilling on the roof of the White House * Two of Theodore Roosevelt's sons managed to sneak a pony into a White House elevator so they could take it to their sick brother's bedroom * George H.W. Bush hated broccoli so much he had it banned from the White House kitchen * And much more!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780787988869
• Artikelnr.: 38218949

Autorenporträt

David C. King is a former history teacher and an award-winning author who haswritten more than thirty books for children and young adults, including the books in Wiley's American Kids in History and American Heritage, American Voices series.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. George Washington (First President, 1789
1797). John Adams (Second President, 1797
1801). Thomas Jefferson (Third President, 1801
1809). James Madison (Fourth President, 1809
1817). James Monroe (Fifth President, 1817
1825). John Quincy Adams (Sixth President, 1825
1829). Andrew Jackson (Seventh President, 1829
1837). Martin Van Buren (Eighth President, 1837
1841). William Henry Harrison (Ninth President, March
April 1841). John Tyler (Tenth President, 1841
1845). James Knox Polk (Eleventh President, 1845
1849). Zachary Taylor (Twelfth President, 1849
1850). Millard Fillmore (Thirteenth President, 1850
1853). Franklin Pierce (Fourteenth President, 1853
1857). James Buchanan (Fifteenth President, 1857
1861). Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President, 1861
1865). Andrew Johnson (Seventeenth President, 1865
1869). Ulysses S. Grant (Eighteenth President, 1869
1877). Rutherford B. Hayes (Nineteenth President, 1877
1881). James A. Garfield (Twentieth President, 1881). Chester A. Arthur (Twenty
first President, 1881
1885). Grover Cleveland (Twenty
second President, 1885
1889; Twenty
fourth President, 1893
1897). Benjamin Harrison (Twenty
third President, 1889
1893). William McKinley (Twenty
fifth President, 1897
1901). Theodore Roosevelt (Twenty
sixth President, 1901
1909). William Howard Taft (Twenty
seventh President, 1909
1913). Woodrow Wilson (Twenty
eighth President, 1913
1921). Warren Gamaliel Harding (Twenty
ninth President, 1921
1923). Calvin Coolidge (Thirtieth President, 1923
1929). Herbert Hoover (Thirty
first President, 1929
1933). Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Thirty
second President, 1933
1945). Harry S Truman (Thirty
third President, 1945
1953). Dwight David Eisenhower (Thirty
fourth President, 1953
1961). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Thirty
fifth President, 1961
1963). Lyndon Baines Johnson (Thirty
sixth President, 1963
1969). Richard Milhous Nixon (Thirty
seventh President, 1969
1974). Gerald Rudolph Ford (Thirty
eighth President, 1974
1977). Jimmy (James Earl) Carter, Jr. (Thirty
ninth President, 1977
1981). Ronald Wilson Reagan (Fortieth President, 1981
1989). George Herbert Walker Bush (Forty
first President, 1989
1993). Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (Forty
second President, 1993
2001). George Walker Bush (Forty
third President, 2001
). Answers. Index.