Growing up Grand
Now - May 2014

ANN ARBOR -- This collection features a selection of documents and photos from President Ford's childhood days in Grand Rapids and his time as a student at the University of Michigan. It also features unique mementos and artifacts not on display in the larger exhibit at the Museum! Visitors can also see the office President Ford used during his post presidential visits to the Library. This lobby exhibit in Ann Arbor has free admission.

Growing up Grand
Now - May 2014

GRAND RAPIDS -- Follow Gerald Ford from his birth in Nebraska, to his growing up in Grand Rapids, to his graduation from the University of Michigan. A first-of-its-kind look at the making of our 38th president.

Yanek Mieckowski
Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige
January 14, 2013
7:30 p.m.

ANN ARBOR-- In a critical Cold War moment in 1957, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet
Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite.

Yanek Mieczkowski's Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment shows that Eisenhower refused to panic and guided America's
space program -- but in a sharp political conflict, he clashed with John Kennedy over sending men
to the moon and improving America's global prestige.

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Peter Baker
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheny in the White House
January 14, 2013
7:30 p.m.

ANN ARBOR-- In Days of Fire, Peter Baker takes us on a journey through the eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration in a narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.

Baker’s deep-dive into the Bush Administration chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters. He brings to life with in-the-room immediacy all the drama of an era marked by devastating terror attacks, the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and financial collapse.

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