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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ginsberg, Gary, author.
Title: First friends: the powerful, unsung (and unelected) people who shaped our presidents / by Gary Ginsberg.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Twelve, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021006851 | ISBN 9781538702925 (Hardcover) | ISBN 9781538702949 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Friendship. | Presidents—United States—History. | United States—Politics and government. | Male friendship. | Interracial friendship.
Classification: LCC GN486.3 .G56 2021 | DDC 302.34—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021006851
ISBNs: 978-1-5387-0292-5 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-0294-9 (ebook)
E3-20210508-JV-NF-ORI