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Maryann Burk Carver met Raymond Carver in 1955, when she was fifteen years old and he was seventeen. In What It Used to Be Like, she recounts a tale of love at first sight in which two teenagers got to know each other by sharing a two-year long-distance correspondence that soon after found them married and with two small children. Over the next twenty-five years, as Carver's fame grew, the family led a nomadic life, moving from school to school and...

Zelda, beautiful, spoiled, brilliant and demanding. Scott, obsessed by his desire for this girl it first seemed he could never have, and then that he could never hold. Against the fevered background of the 1920's, from orgiastic parties on Long Island to sun-drenched beaches of the South of France, their love was like a whirlwind that they rode to the peaks of happiness and the depth of tragedy.

Explores the personal dynamics and historical events that were shaped by White House marriages over the course of twelve administrations, from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush.

Personal snapshots, letters, press clippings, extracts from reviews, and other material from family scrapbooks provide an intimate and definitive autobiography of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other.