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Are You Prepared for the Storm of Lovemaking
Releasing from Simon and Schuster 6-Feb-2024, Are You Prepared for the Storm of Lovemaking?
A belated Happy Birthday to Andrew Jackson, who was born March 15, 1767. Jackson was the first president to grow up on the frontier, but that didn’t stop him from achieving great deeds. He made a name for himself by defeating British troops in 1812 at the Battle of New Orleans. (Even though the peace treaty had been signed in Europe at the time. The news hadn’t reached America yet.) He continually promised his long-suffering wife Rachel that he was going to settle down on their plantation, but never did. When he was elected president, she commissioned a dress to wear at the inauguration, but she died before it was time to wear it, and thus was buried in it.![]()
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Image: Mrs. Rachel Jackson, late consort to Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. Kearny, Francis, 1785-1837, engraver. Philad[elphi]a : Pubd. by Joseph How, [1829?]![]()
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Racy Presidential Love Letters: ‘I Take a Long, Deep, Wild Draught on Your Lips’
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“Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?” collects correspondence sent by the likes of Warren G. Harding, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt .
Happy pub (publication) date to us! So happy that Are You Prepared is finally out in the world! For those who have pre-ordered, you should be getting your books today or very soon. In the meantime, you can read one of the enthusiastic and excellent reviews we’ve gotten so far here: ![]()
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And if you haven’t gotten your copy yet, you can order it at your choice of bookseller through our website www.hooblerauthors.com
Happy belated birthday to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was born on January 30, 1882. FDR was certainly the most influential of all presidents, leading the nation out of the Great Depression as well as leading it to victory in World War II The nation elected him president four times, even though he died before he could finish the fourth term. He did all this without the use of his legs, the result of an attack of polio when he was a young man.![]()
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(Image: FDR with his Delano grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and mother at Algonac, family home in Newburgh, New York, 1889. FDR library. )
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John Tyler, the tenth president of the U.S. died this day (Jan. 18) in 1862. Tyler was the first president to attain the office because of the death of his predecessor, and people called him "His Accidency." He was not elected to another term, and when the Confederate states seceded, he joined them and was actually elected to the Confederate Congress–but died before it met. He was buried with the Confederate flag on his coffin.![]()
Tyler is also notable for marrying a second time, fathering 15 children in all, the most of any president. Tyler’s father was a roommate of Thomas Jefferson at the College of William and Mary, and Tyler himself recalled eating at Jefferson’s house. ![]()
Tyler’s son also married at an advanced age, and had several children. Because of this one of Tyler’s grandchildren, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, is still alive today.