The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's Leaders

ix, 512 pp. "A study of the parents of each American president draws on the author's research from All the Presidents' Children as well as the expertise of five psychologists to shed insight into such events as Lillian Carter's antagonism of segregationist neighbors, Warren G. Harding's mother's murder charge, and single mother Betty Jackson's succor of Revolutionary War soldiers."