New Book Launch! PRESIDENTIAL EDUCATION: PRELUDE TO POWER To purchase, individuals or resellers: click here to access our order page or click here to order from Amazon.com. In the Amazon.com search box, choose Books and type in Olexer; that will bring up all of our books listed on the site. 
The Phantom Ship, Crater Lake, Oregon, photo courtesy National Park Service
Joyous Publishing is a small company, specializing in novels, with some nonfiction.
If you have ever wondered where and how our presidents were educated, this book will give you the answers. There are no educational requirements nor is there a qualifying exam for the office of president. Some of our presidents had very little formal education; Abe Lincoln had less than a year of schooling and Andrew Johnson had none at all. The only president who held a Ph.D. was Woodrow Wilson. Consider these intriguing presidential facts:
George Washington was once an officer in the British Army.
John Adams and James Monroe each carried a gun to school.
Thomas Jefferson played fiddle in a combo at college.
John Quincy Adams failed his first Harvard entrance exam.
Andrew Jackson is the only president who was ever a prisoner of war.
Franklin Pierce was constantly in trouble at college for ingesting illicit substances – root beer and gingerbread.
Abraham Lincoln's father objected to his reading and studying, considering it lazy and a waste of time.
James Garfield could read proficiently at the age of three.
Teddy Roosevelt was afraid of his laundress when he attended Harvard.
Woodrow Wilson dropped out of three colleges.
Calvin Coolidge, “Silent Cal,” was hired as a law clerk because the lawyer liked to laugh and said Cal was a very funny speaker.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fourteen when he was arrested in Germany four times in one day.
Harry Truman ordered and consumed an ice cream soda then discovered he lacked the nickel to pay Jesse James, Jr. for it.
John F. Kennedy had his phone tapped by the FBI because he was considered a security risk when he worked for naval intelligence during World War II. Ronald Reagan saved seventy-seven lives working summers as a life guard.
FOSSIL ROCKS has been issued in large print. Click here to see a description of the book.
To see articles, short stories, and sketches by Barbara J. Olexer, click on this URL: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=64865
A new story was recently added, "The Tree That Walked," about a Douglas Fir that was dissatisfied with his place in a tub on a city sidewalk and relocated to the forest in the Cascade Mountains. He had many adventures and met lots of folks along the way.
Our blog features facts and anecdotes about our presidents and also speaks to other subjects and issues. Check it out: http://presidentsed.blogspot.com/
As a charter member of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, we invite you to visit and see this amazing place. There are artifacts and dioramas of hundreds of tribes. To learn more, visit: http://www.AmericanIndian.si.edu
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