Title Close calls : how eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death / Michael P. Spradlin.

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New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020.

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Description	x, 116 pages ; 24 cm
Summary	"Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been stalking him for months, frontiersman Davey Crockett was the one to save him. With pacy, immediate writing and including supplemental archival photographs and archival materials, this book chronicles thrilling undertold stories of U.S. presidents' moments of bravery."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-110) and index.
Audience	Grade 7 to 8.
	Ages 9-14.
Contents	If they kill the general, he can't be the father of his country -- Beating the odds -- The Baltimore plot -- First you get shot, then you give a speech -- A shootout with the Capitol police -- I don't like Ike -- PT-109 -- The fall of Gerald Ford -- In the belly of the beast -- "Honey, I forgot to duck!" -- A young pilot saved from capture.
Subject	Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
	Presidents -- United States -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
	Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Near-death experiences -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Presidents.
	Presidents -- Assassination attempts.
	Near-death experiences.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / General.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Military & Wars.
	Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
	Presidents -- Assassination attempts. (OCoLC)fst01075729
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
	Informational works. (OCoLC)fst01919930
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Informational works.
	Biographies.
	Trivia and miscellanea.
Added Title	How eleven US Presidents escaped from the brink of death
Other Form:	Online version: Spradlin, Michael P., Close calls New York : Bloomsbury, 2020 9781547601394 (DLC) 2019980875
ISBN	9781547600236
	1547600233
	9781547601394 (ebook)

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