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A treasury of great American scandals : tantalizing true tales of historic misbehavior by the founding fathers and others who let freedom swing
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- Creator
- Michael Farquhar
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Penguin Books, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780142001929, 0142001929
- OCLC
- ocm51810711
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-321)
- Introduction -- pt. 1. Family ties that bind ... and gag -- 1. Prepare for a shock -- 2. Mother Mary, quite contrary -- 3. Foundering father -- 4. I now pronounce you miserable -- 5. Dishonor thy mother -- 6. A short, ugly story -- 7. With this ring, I thee dread -- 8. Smother-in-law -- 9. One bad apple tree -- 10. Oh, brother! -- pt. 2. Cold wars -- Feuding founding fathers -- Showdown at Weehawken -- Giving the Devil his duel -- Overreaction Jackson -- 5. "The Eaton malaria" -- not so civil war -- When "Mush" came to shove -- "I'd rather vote for Hitler" -- General dissatisfaction -- LBJ vs. RFK -- pt. 3. Hail to the chaff -- Zachary Taylor -- Franklin Pierce -- James Buchanan -- Andrew Johnson -- Ulysses S. Grant -- 6. Grover Cleveland -- William McKinley -- William Howard Taft -- Woodrow Wilson - John Tyler -- pt. 4. Congressional follies -- Floor fights -- Sexcapades -- pt. 5. Cruel campaigns -- "One continued tempest of malignant passions" -- "May God Almighty forgive her murderers" -- 3. "A horrid looking wretch he is" -- "Ma! Ma! Where's my Pa?" -- pt. 6. The American Hall of Shame -- Benedict Arnold : hero, traiter, whiner -- Aaron Burr : "Embryo-Caesar" -- Roger Taney : one mean supreme -- Henry Wirz : manufactured monster -- A. Mitchell Palmer : seeing red -- Warren G. Harding : nice guy finishes last -- Joe McCarthy : Wisconsin sleaze -- 8. t J. Edgar Hoover : what a drag -- Richard Nixon : say what? -- pt. 7. Murder, madness, and just plain strange episodes -- Bewitched -- 2. The man who would be queen -- Cellar dweller -- Explorer off course -- 5. The case of the cuckholded congressman -- 6. The other assassinations -- pt. 8. Remains to be seen -- Boiling "Mad" 00 Tom Paine's farewell tour -- Abe Lincoln's indecent exposure -- 4. The "resurrection" of John Scott Harrison -- John Paul Jones : pickled in Paris -- appendix 1. Presidents of the United States -- appendix 2. A brief history of the United States (through 1980) -- Select bibliography -- Acknowledgments