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Close calls : how thirteen US Presidents escaped from the brink of death by Spradlin, Michael P., author is a children's nonfiction book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Close calls : how thirteen US Presidents escaped from the brink of death about?
Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been stalking him for months, frontiersman Davey Crocke
Who reads Close calls : how thirteen US Presidents escaped from the brink of death?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Spradlin, Michael P., author
- Publisher
- New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781547601394
- Category
- children's nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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