The President's Gardens The President's Gardens The President’s Gardens: is a novel written by the Iraqi author Muhsin al-Ramli. Set during the last fifty years of Iraqi history, this novel tells the story of three friends, exploring how ordinary people have been affected by historic events such as wars, the blockade of Iraq and the invasion of Kuwait. It examines the gap between the lifestyle of those in power and ordinary citizens. During the chaos of occupation, one of them loses his life, like so many caught between loyalists of the old and new regimes. "The President's Gardens" helps the reader understand the
Madison Square and Madison Square Park the first auction house in the US, quickly became the place to go in New York to buy and sell jewelry, antiquities, fine art and rare books. The building that became the first Madison Square Garden at 26th Street and Madison Avenue was built in 1832 as the passenger depot of the New York and Harlem Rail Road, and was later used by the New York and New Haven Railroad as well; both were owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt. When the depot moved uptown in 1871 to Grand Central Depot, the building stood vacant until 1873, when it was leased to