POTUS: Icons, Artifacts, and History That Shaped the American Presidency

A revealing look inside the archives of the American presidency, from Hoover to Obama

In POTUS, photographer Peter Adams takes readers inside the archives—and lives—of modern American presidents dating back to the 1929 presidency of Herbert Hoover. For five years, Adams turned his lens toward the artifacts housed within the network of presidential libraries run by the National Archives in order to explore the processes, personalities, and history that shaped most powerful office on Earth.

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