Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the Men of the White House
Cormac O'Brien
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ISBN: 1931686580
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Language: English
Publish: December 1, 2003
American HistoryBiographyHistoricalHistoryHumorNonfictionPoliticsPresidentsTriviaUs Presidents
Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one “Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents” features outrageous and uncensored profiles of the men in the White House – complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright wacko facts. You’ll discover that: – George Washington spent a whopping 7% of his salary on booze- John Quincy Adams loved to skinny-dip in the Potomac River – Warren G. Harding gambled with White House china when he ran low on cash – Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting in Georgia – And Richard Nixon . . . sheesh, don’t get us started on Nixon With chapters on everyone from George Washington to G. W. Bush, “Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents” tackles all the tough questions that other history books are afraid to answer: Are there really secret tunnels underneath the White House? How many presidential daughters have bared their all for “Playboy”? And what was Nancy Reagan thinking when she appeared on “Diff’rent Strokes”? American history was never this much fun in school