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Wine and the White House
A history
Frederick J Ryan
The White House Historical Association
ISBN 9781950273072
$55
The first photograph in this book is nothing less than that of a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1955, signed to the author by Ronald Reagan. ‘Brace yourself’, I thought, ‘you’re in for some serious name-dropping…’. Ryan’s introduction on the facing page, however, is by complete contrast funny and self-deprecating. His interest in...