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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World Book: White House 'the American house next door' By JESSICA GRESKO,Associated Press Writer - Sunday, November 1 Send IM Story Print WASHINGTON – Lady Bird Johnson said walking through the White House was like walking "through history." Hillary Clinton called the home "a repository of America's storied past." Michelle Obama has called it "awe inspiring." The authors of a new book have another name for the president's residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.: "the American house next door." "Americans have this sense of the White House as something apart ... it doesn't seem to change from the outside, but that doesn't mean it hasn't changed constantly," said Ulysses Grant Dietz, the great-great grandson of the 18th president and co-author of "Dream House: The White House as an American Home." Dietz and Sam Watters write that over the past 200 years, the White House has morphed from a country house to a suburban home to a museum. In the process, they say, changes the presidents have made to have reflected Americans' changing ideals about what a home should be. The authors go over some basic history. John Adams was the home's first occupant, taking up residence in 1800. The home survived a fire started by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812. But their main concern is how the home has changed. Thomas Jefferson added colonnades. Teddy Roosevelt got rid of the Victorian furniture he considered in bad taste. And in the 1940s and 1950s as millions began moving into suburbs, President Harry Truman added a balcony and President Dwight Eisenhower barbecued on the third-floor terrace. The authors manage to get in to see the Obama family's vegetable garden and swing set, noting there was also a playground on the White House lawn in 1933 when FDR's grandchildren played there. "I think it's a surprise to people that the White House went through so many decorating styles," said Dietz, curator of decorative arts at New Jersey's Newark Museum. The book, released in September by Acanthus Press, follows a line of works about the first family's home. The Library of Congress holds more than 700 books on the subject of the White House. They range from a definitive 1,500-page, two-volume set written by William Seale to books by the home's longtime curator, Betty C. Monkman. There's even a book dictated to Barbara Bush by Millie, the president's dog. But the authors say their coffee-table style book _ selling for $75 _ is the only one to look at the first house as a home that changed with the times. They plan to be in Washington on Sunday to discuss their book at the Historical Society of Washington. Other stops on their tour will include Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Memphis, Tenn. People who read the book or hear them talk may be surprised, however, the authors say. For example, until Sarah Polk in the 1840s, it was the men who decorated the home. And at one point, the house was in such disrepair that the legs of a piano came through the ceiling of another room. Watters says the hardest thing for many, however, may be that Jacqueline Kennedy's 1960s restoration of the home isn't historically accurate. Her "period rooms" _ the Green Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room and others _ were furnished to look stately and grand, but while they contained antiques the rooms were not historically accurate. Though the house is "sold as a museum," it's really not, Watters said. The Lincoln Bedroom, originally Lincoln's office, is the only room that even comes close to the way a president had rooms decorated, the authors write. "What you see today is Mrs. Kennedy's idea of how presidents should have lived," Watters said. "It may be beautiful, but it is not how John Adams moves into the White House." ___ On the Net: Newark Museum: http://www.newarkmuseum.org Acanthus Press: http://www.acanthuspress.com Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles Sick Elton John postpones US gigs with Joel AFP - Sunday, November 1 US-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Reuters - Sunday, November 1 "Glee" cast to get Hollywood diversity award Reuters - Sunday, November 1 Moroccan town beats to tune of Judeo-Arab music AFP - Sunday, November 1 Book: White House 'the American house next door' AP - Sunday, November 1 News Search Top Stories ECB rates on hold, experts view bank loan policy Iceland lifts capital controls as crisis eases Iran says EU firms in talks to bring its gas to Nabucco US stocks slide ahead of Fed rate decision, jobless data Hamilton seizes pole in Abu Dhabi GP More Top Stories » ADVERTISEMENT Most Popular Most Viewed Most Recommended Arise, Sir Dracula! 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