The Birthplace Book: A Guide to Birth Sites of Famous People, Places, and Things
*Birthplaces of all 43 presidents
*Packed with photos of people and places
Elvis, blue jeans, Abraham Lincoln, plutonium, Slinkys, Frank Sinatra, the Cobb salad, Superman, Lucille Ball, e-mail, baseball, Mark Twain, flight, McDonalds, and hundreds of other notable people and things all have birthplaces. Some are gone and marked only by a plaque, but others have been preserved and even turned into museums. This guidebook is packed with entries on American birthplaces of all sorts, taking travelers state-by-state to a variety of locations.