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Copyright © 2023 by Alex Prud’homme

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred Music for permission to reprint lyric excerpt from “The Room Where It Happens” (from the Broadway musical Hamilton), words and music by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Copyright © 2015 by 5000 Broadway Music (ASCAP). All rights administered by WC Music Corp. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Music.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Prud’homme, Alex, author.

Title: Dinner with the president : food, politics, and a history of breaking bread at the White House / Alex Prud’homme.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. | “This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf.” | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: lccn 2022018067 | isbn 9781524732219 (hardcover) | isbn 9781524732226 (ebook)

Subjects: lcsh: White House (Washington, D.C.)—Miscellanea. | Presidents—United States—Biography. | Food—Political aspects—United States. | Food habits—United States.

Classification: lcc E176.1 .P978 2023 | ddc 973.09/9 23/eng/20220—dc07

lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2022018067

Ebook ISBN 9781524732226

Cover images: (top) President Kennedy makes a toast at a State Dinner, 1963. Corbis / Getty Images; (bottom) President Dwight Eisenhower Inauguration Lunch, 1957. AP Images.

Cover design by John Gall

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