{"product_id":"9781561645336","title":"Presidents in Florida: How the Presidents Have Shaped Florida and How Florida Has Influenced the Presidents","description":"\u003cp\u003eU.S. Presidents have played a major role in shaping Florida, whether waging wars, protecting the environment, seeking votes, or just drawing media attention to the state's attractions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas Jefferson set out to buy Florida, but ended up making the Louisiana Purchase instead.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrew Jackson came to fight Indians when La Florida was still a Spanish colony and then became the first territorial governor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbraham Lincoln came up with the plan to get Florida back into the Union in 1864 to help his reelection chances.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUlysses S. Grant came to promote steamships on the St. Johns River.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWarren G. Harding played golf with an elephant as a caddie, and Chester Arthur went fishing in Orlando.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders sailed to glory from Tampa, but nearly missed the boat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHerbert Hoover came to Florida to spend time with his friends, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, and held the Florida record for catching the largest bonefish. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDays before his inauguration, an assassination attempt was made on Franklin Roosevelt as he spoke in a Miami park. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoosevelt's yacht was anchored at Fort Lauderdale when a massive hurricane swept it inland. Roosevelt tried to sell it as a hunting lodge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarry Truman launched a campaign to defeat a Florida Senator, and had a house in Key West called the Little White House.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNixon killed the Cross Florida Barge Canal, becoming a hero to environmentalists. After winning election, he purchased a home in Florida and was there during the Watergate burglary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge W. Bush launched his political career in Florida, working for a successful Senate candidate. And of course it was the contested Florida vote, with its \"hanging-chad\" ballots, that gave him reelection in 2000.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eLearn about all of these men and more in this unique take on Florida history.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pineapple Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052551127280,"sku":"9781561645336","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781561645336_p0.jpg?v=1763757809","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781561645336","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}