The White House: Historical Facts and Details of the United States' President's Residence

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The story of the White House begins not with the first stone laid or the first presidential inhabitant, but with the revolutionary idea that a democratic republic should have a chief executive who lived in a house rather than a palace, a residence that would embody the principles of the new nation while commanding respect from foreign dignitaries and domestic citizens alike. When the framers of the Constitution created the office of the presiden...