Barack Obama and George Washington are on the cover,  and if you’re curious about their lives or  the lives of any president in between the two, the information is inside The Handy Presidents Answer Book .

No matter how obscure, each resident of the White House gets about four pages, but it’s far more entertaining reading than mere birth, death, and politics.   Did you know, for instance, that Andrew Johnson was criticized for buying Alaska from Russia for a bit over $7 million dollars?  The Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson relationship is discussed and debated,  and you can learn that U.S. Grant’s well known initials were the result of a congressman’s mistake with Grant’s name.

Pictures of each president include a young and handsome George W. Bush in training as a F-102 pilot, Bill Clinton playing his saxophone,  a very heavy William Howard Taft in his judicial robe after leaving the presidency, and many more.

This book, which even includes a “Presidential Trivia” section, would be a nice addition to libraries and classrooms.  Pick it up and browse through and you’ll find it hard to put down.