I'm enjoying this book much more than I did "All the President's Children". Dare I suggest that Mr. Wead wrote that one for a completely different audience, GWB? I hope not. It may be because that book was written like a collection of mini bios and, because it was, that's how I read it. This one is written more in sections on individual families and it reads in a far more interesting way. I'm up to the Roosevelts - more later.
OK, the mini bios did come at the back of the book. By the time I got to them I was actually looking for something like that. The first five sections were great stories all by themselves: The Founding Fathers and Mothers, The Enigmatic Rise of Abraham Lincoln, The Roosevelts, The Kennedys and The Bushes. Following these was A Chronological List of the President's Parents - here were the mini bios - and these were necessary to complete the history. The only other way would have been to write 43 separate books and that wasn't the intent. I doubt that it would have been possible to collect enough information to flesh out something like that anyway.
Mr. Wead is currently working on a third book about Presidential families, this one will discuss siblings of the elected person. I'm looking forward to that. ( )

Superb, absorbing personal histories of presidential families. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln spent weeks alone in the wilderness with his young sister while his father went to find them a new mother? How they survived at all is mind-boggling. ( )