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Presidents in Love Putting Pen to Paper

The editors of this volume make no effort to compare presidents, but instead want to categorize the types of love letters they wrote in sections titled: Romancing, Separation, Adversity, and Lovers.

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President Kennedy, 1963. AP
CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

‘Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? Letters of Love and Lust from the White House’
Edited by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Simon & Schuster, 304 pages

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington, Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Criterion, and other publications.

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