HOLIDAY BOOK FESTIVAL MEET THE AUTHORS !
& Special Guest President Thomas Jefferson!
Since 1962, the White House Historical Association has produced award-winning books on many subjects related to the history of the President’s House—from its architecture, gardens, fine and decorative arts to the presidents and first ladies who lived there over the years. Our titles appeal to history buffs and art lovers, connoisseurs and curious amateurs, scholars and tourists, adults and children. We are pleased to invite you to meet the authors of these award-winning books at our holiday book festival on December 2.
Special Guest Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, will be present to welcome you and to share his memories of the White House.
2, 2022 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. white house history shop 1610 h street, n.w., washington, d.c. questions? contact shop.whitehousehistory.orgbooks@whha.org
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Meet the Artists!
Peter Waddell
Artist Peter Waddell is well known for his paintings of Washington, D.C., history, and architecture. He will be working on two White House paintings throughout the day and will be available to answer questions as he paints.
Peter Waddell’s work is featured in An Artist Visits the White House Past, an exhibition catalog of his twenty-first century paintings of White House events that were not drawn, painted, or photographed definitively in their own times.
John Hutton
John Hutton will be on hand to demonstrate how to draw the presidents. He will be signing his book How to Draw the Presidents and books in the children’s series that he illustrated.
Buy any two books to enter a raffle to win an original drawing by artist John Hutton.
For the Children!
Giovanna McBride
Signed copies of the award-winning Gigi at the White House! by Giovanna McBride will be available.
Arioth and Rocco Smirne
Arioth and Rocco Smirne will presign their award-winning children’s books, A White House Alphabet and Rocco Travels with the Presidents!
Jonathan Pliska
Signed copies of children’s titles by Jonathan Pliska, including Presidents Play!, Kids Play at the White House!, and the White House Easter Egg Roll: A History for All Ages, will be available.
Meet the Chefs!
Chef Matthew Wendel
Will be on hand to sign his bestselling memoir and cookbook
ReCipes FRom The pResidenT’s RanCh: Food People Like to Eat
Alex Prud’homme
Alex Prud’homme, culinary historian and author of The First Kitchen: a Culinary History of the White House (Knopf 2023), which traces the central role food has played in Ameri can political history, will be on hand to sign his foreword to
The WhiTe house Family Cookbook by the late White House Executive Chef Henry Haller with Virginia Aronson
Chef Mark Ramsdell
Chef Mark Ramsdell will be available to discuss his long collaboration with the late White House Executive Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier (1946–2022), featured in two special and popular cookbooks:
THE WHITE HOUSE IN GINGERBREAD: Memories and Recipes and CREATING THE SWEET WORLD OF WHITE HOUSE DESSERTS: A Pastry Chef’s Secrets
Meet the Authors!
Mac Griswold
Griswold will sign her new book, I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon. Mellon’s most celebrated work—the White House Rose Garden, was designed during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Later, her understated landscape design for the Kennedy gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery changed the face of American public memorials.
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Osborne Phinizy Mackie
Osborne Mackie will sign The Stephen Decatur House: A History, which chronicles the history of the house and its occupants in four parts—a biography of Stephen Decatur by James Tertius de Kay; an architectural history by Michael Fazio; a study of the fine and decorative arts collection by Osborne Mackie; and an essay on the evolution of the house from private home to historic site by Katherine Malone-France.
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Bruce White
Photographer Bruce M. White will sign At Home in the President’s Neighborhood: A Photographic Tour, which presents the city as the president sees it from the White House to the surrounding parks, landmarks, government and commercial architecture, and city streets.
Wayne Smith
Wayne Smith will sign his book White House Renovation Souvenirs: Relics and Mementos of the President’s House, which features White House relics preserved and re-purposed over the years a er two centuries of change and renovation.
Bill Barker
Bill Barker will sign Becoming Jefferson: My Life as a Founding Father. Barker, who has portrayed Thomas Jefferson in a variety of venues since 1981, writes about how his historical interpretation of Mr. Jefferson has evolved through the years.
Marcia Anderson
Marcia Anderson will sign The Official White House Christmas Ornament: Collected Stories of a Holiday Tradition, which features the stories behind the design of each forty-two ornaments issued from 1981 to 2022.
Discover More from our Quarterly Authors!
Mary Jo Binker
Mary Jo Binker will sign her articles from White House History Quarterly on Fashion, Television, and Social Secretaries as well her books If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt and What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Christina Ewald
Christina Ewald will sign her article “Two Iconic Kennedy Dresses Re-created: The Exhibition of First Ladies’ Clothing and a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Process of Re-creating Historical Fashion” from the Fashion issue of White House History Quarterly. The dresses she created will be on display.
Alex Prud’homme
Alex Prud’homme will sign his article “Julia Child Goes Behind the Scenes at the White House” in the White House History Quarterly issue on Queen Elizabeth II: The Royal Visits as well as his book The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act and his forward to The White House Family Cookbook by Henry Haller with Virginia Aronson.
Christy Bowe
Will sign her article “The White House Garden and Grounds as Presidential Stage: My Perspective from Behind the Lens in the White House Press Corps” from White House History Quarterly as well as her book Eyes That Speak: One Woman News Photographer’s Journey with History Makers.
Kenneth T. Walsh
Kenneth T. Walsh will sign his articles from White House History Quarterly on Photography and Television at the White House as well as his book Ultimate Insiders: White House Photographers and How They Shape History.
Rebecca Youngblood Vaughn
Will sign her introduction to her father’s memoir 20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents; and, from the White House History Quarterly issue she will sign her article “Growing Up a Secret Service Agent’s Daughter: Life with My Father Rufus W. Youngblood.”
Matthew Costello
Matthew Costello will sign his article in the White House History Quarterly issue on Death and the White House as well as his book, The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President.
Complete your White House Library .
Wine
Designing Camelot
The Kennedy White House Restoration and Its Legacy
by James Archer Abbott and Elaine Rice Bachmann
WINE AND THE WHITE HOUSE A History by Frederick J. Ryan, Jr.
James Hoban Designer and Builder of the White House by Stewart D. McLaurin
Blair House
The President’s Guest House by William Seale
OFFICIAL White House China by William Allman
MONA LISA IN CAMELOT by Margaret Leslie Davis
and the WHITE HOUSE : A HISTORY frederick j ryan, jr
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ART IN THE WHITE HOUSE by William Kloss
with Presigned Books!
Music at the White House
From the 18th to the 21st Centuries by Elise Kirk
A GARDEN FOR THE PRESIDENT A History of the White House Grounds by Jonathan Pliska
TO LIVE ON LAFAYETTE SQUARE SOCIETY & POLITICS IN THE PRESIDENT’S NEIGHBORHOOD
To Live on Lafayette Square Society and Politics in the President’s Neighborhood by William Seale
Madeline at the White House by John Bemelmans Marciano
jonathan pliska
A Garden for the President A History of the White House Grounds
WILLIAM KLOSS
Art in the White House
the white house historical
association
william seale