Americans in London (Americans Abroad Series)
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"Americans in London" is a delightful street-by-street guide to the homes, clubs, and favorite pubs of more than 250 illustrious Americans. In anecdotes, letters, and quotes, here is London seen through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin, Abigail Adams, Benedict Arnold, Samuel Morse, James Fenimore Cooper, P. T. Barnum, Mark Twain, Ethel Barrymore, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Wallis Simpson, Joseph Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, and Sylvia Plath, among others. So that you can follow the Americans' footsteps, there are maps keyed to hundreds of destinations. Fifty pages of photographs show what the Americans saw as well as some of the Americans themselves. For the frequent visitor or the armchair traveler, for every American who has ever visited or hopes to visit London, "Americans in London" is a way to live, relive, and enrich the experience.