This book was excellent! I hardly put it down since I started reading it. It is an amazing story about how dilapidated the White House was after WWII. It shows just how real the troubles were and how stressful the wars were.

Truman had a hard decision to rebuild the entire house, but he pushed through it and now our president still lives at the same address. If he hadn't we would have lost this house forever. It is true that there is not a lot of original items in the house, but now, it doesn't seem to take away from the home. People in the 50s may have been bothered by it, but today most people don't even know it was rebuilt.

The only downfall of this book is the lack of pictures. Since I was reading it on Kindle, I am not holding that against it as the hard copy might have more pictures. Great quick read!