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...FATHER'S HOUSE by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. 239 pages. Random House...
...father has no first and last name. He is simply "my father." Few boys, however, maintain that specialized vision into their manhood. Their fathers' frailties, their faults and even their humdrum similarity to every father anywhere soon begin to blur the individual image. But for Philip Kunhardt, in this recollection of his years with Father, the memories of the boy needed no later adjustment by the grown man. Indeed, Kunhardt, now 42, still remembers his father with such unalloyed love that nowhere in the book does he think to refer to him by name...
Philip B. Kunhardt Sr. did have a certain natural head start on gaining any son's affections. He could pack endless snowballs with his bare hands; he could be blindfolded, spun around a hundred times and still point unerringly north; and he could throw the perfect football pass for the special secret "zombie play." It also helped that he was willing to undertake immediately any worthy big idea, such as going 90 miles to the beach on bikes; against such enthusiasm for grand adventure, Mother could hardly insist on being too sensible...
TWENTY DAYS, by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. With 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection and a lively text, a mother-and-son team gives new perspectives to the 20-day period in April and May 1865, from the time Abraham Lincoln fell mortally wounded to the time his body was laid to rest at Springfield...
TWENTY DAYS, by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Illustrated with 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection accompanied by a lively text, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives to describe the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, covers the period from the slaying until his body was laid to rest in Springfield...