Under this roof

In this history of the highest office of the United States of America, Paul Brandus, White House-based journalist and creator of the enormously popular "West Wing Report" (200K+ followers) on Twitter (@WestWingReport) focuses on an oft ignored key player-the life of the White House itself. Even in this time of relentless coverage of the President's every move, we can forget that he and his advisers are human, with a life filled with smaller personal moments that lead up to the big public ones. Imagine Nixon in the East Room, worrying what would happen if the moon mission fails, or McKinley in

Preface; CHAPTER ONE John Adams: A Benediction for the Future; CHAPTER TWO Thomas Jefferson: The Lewis & Clark Expedition; CHAPTER THREE James and Dolley Madison: The Burning of the White House; CHAPTER FOUR James Monroe: The Monroe Doctrine; CHAPTER FIVE Andrew Jackson: The Nullification Crisis; CHAPTER SIX John Tyler: Ten Funerals and a Wedding; CHAPTER SEVEN James K. Polk: Five Presidents, One War; CHAPTER EIGHT Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address; CHAPTER NINE Ulysses S. Grant: The Secret Swearing-In; CHAPTER TEN Rutherford B. Hayes:The Wired White House

CHAPTER ELEVEN William McKinley: The Spanish-AmericanWarCHAPTER TWELVE Theodore Roosevelt: The Dawn of the American Century; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Woodrow Wilson: The Secret Illness; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Warren G. Harding: Scandals Galore; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Calvin Coolidge: The Roaring Twenties; CHAPTER SIXTEEN Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Fireside Chats; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Harry Truman: "The Moon, the Stars, and All the Planets"; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN John F. Kennedy: The Blood Red Carpet; CHAPTER NINETEEN Richard Nixon: The Enemy Within; CHAPTER TWENTY Ronald Reagan: Lights, Camera, Action

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Barack Obama: The bin Laden R…