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Presidents and First Ladies in Fiction

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

-Abraham Lincoln, April 4, 1864

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by Brandon, Jay

Description: The First Lady approaches San Antonio divorce lawyer David Owens wanting to divorce her husband. The President has secrets that he wants kept, which puts the First Lady’s life in danger.

by Feldman, Ellen

Description: On the eve of World War I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt fell in love with his wife’s social secretary, Lucy Mercer. When Eleanor stumbled onto evidence of the affair, divorce was discussed, but honor and ambition won out.

by Flynn, Joseph

Description: J.D. Cade was trained to kill by his country. He did his duty and put the past behind him. Or so he thought. Now someone is using his only son as a pawn to force him to kill again.

by Gerber, Robin

Description: In this what-if novel, during the 1952 Democratic convention, Adlai Stevenson suffers a heart attack and dies on stage moments before he accepts the nomination. The popular Eleanor Roosevelt, a widow since 1945, is quickly brought in to take his place and run against Eisenhower.

by Gingrich, Newt

Description: The revolution has come down to one desperate throw of the dice as Washington’s army, freezing and hungry, slips across the Delaware to carry out what will become one of the most famous surprise attacks of all time.

by Gold, Glen David

Description: Carter the Great, the best magician in the country in the 1920s, prepares his most outrageous stunt of all, starring none other than President Warren G. Harding.

by King, Stephen

Description: On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back?

by Langton, Jane

Description: A murder on the ground of Jefferson’s mansion at Monticello leads history buff Homer Kelly on a search for Tom Dean, a young man seen trespassing on the property, who has become the prime suspect in the killings of several local women

by Mercurio, Jed

Description: Like any successful philanderer, he must be circumspect in his choice of mistresses and exercise every effort to conceal his affairs from his wife and jealous rivals. But this is no ordinary adulterer– he is John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.

by Nevin, David

Description: Jefferson and Madison must work together to save the young country from the treachery of Aaron Burr and the schemes of Napoleon.

by Preston, Caroline

Description: Josie, a literature student, is offered a well-paid job researching the life of Jackie Onassis for a writer working on an intimate biography. She takes the assignment and discovers that Jackie’s stormy marriage to President Kennedy strangely resembled her own.

by Sittenfeld, Curtis

Description: Alice Blackwell, whose husband is beginning his second term as president of the United States, describes her modest upbringing, her career as a librarian, her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet, and her experience as First Lady.

by Thor, Brad

Description: When a group of Secret Service agents is massacred in Utah and the president of the United States is abducted, surviving agent Scot Harvath vows to avenge his murdered colleagues and find the kidnappers.


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