Treasury of Great American Scandals Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing

Name: 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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ISBN: 9780142001929

ISBN-10: 0142001929

ISBN-13: 9780142001929

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Farquhar

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Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home with A Treasury of Great American Scandals. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.34" wide x 7.97" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Michael Farquhar,a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of the Penguin Treasury series.



Introduction



Family Ties That Bind ... And Gag



Prepare for a Shock



Mother Mary, Quite Contrary



Foundering Father



I Now Pronounce You Miserable



Dishonor Thy Mother



A Short, Ugly Story



With This Ring, I Thee Dread



Smother-in-Law



One Bad Apple Tree



Oh, Brother!



Cold Wars



Feuding Founding Fathers



Showdown at Weehawken



Giving the Devil His Duel



Overreaction Jackson



"The Eaton Malaria"



A Not So Civil War



When "Mush" Came to Shove



"I'd Rather Vote for Hitler"



General Dissatisfaction



LBJ vs. RFK



Hail to the Chaff



Zachary Taylor



Franklin Pierce



James Buchanan



Andrew Johnson



Ulysses S. Grant



Grover Cleveland



William McKinley



William Howard Taft



Woodrow Wilson



John Tyler



Congressional Follies



Floor Fights



Sexcapades



Cruel Campaigns



"One Continued Tempest of Malignant Passions"



"May God Almighty Forgive Her Murderers"



"A Horrid Looking Wretch He Is"



"Ma! Ma! Where's My Pa?"



The American Hall of Shame



Benedict Arnold: Hero, Traitor, 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



J. Edgar Hoover: What a Drag



Richard Nixon: Say What!?



Murder, Madness, and Just Plain Strange Episodes



Bewitched



The Man Who Would Be Queen



Cellar Dweller



Explorer Off Course



The Case of the Cuckolded Congressman



The Other Assassinations



Remains to Be Seen



Boiling "Mad"



Tom Paine's Farewell Tour



Abe Lincoln's Indecent Exposure



The "Resurrection" of John Scott Harrison



John Paul Jones: Pickled in Paris



Presidents of the United States



A Brief History of the United States (through 1980)


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments