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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

  • 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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    Michael Farquhar

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    Book, Penguin Books, 2003

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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. and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile habits, and, of course, sex: good sex, bad sex, and good-bad sex too. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • Introduction
    • |gpt. 1.Family ties that bind … and gag
    • |g1.Prepare for a shock
    • |g2.Mother Mary, quite contrary
    • |g3.Foundering father
    • |g4.I now pronounce you miserable
    • |g5.Dishonor thy mother
    • |g6.A short, ugly story
    • |g7.With this ring, I thee dread
    • |g8. Smother-in-law
    • |g9.One bad apple tree
    • |g10.Oh, brother!
    • |gpt. 2.Cold wars
    • |g1.Feuding founding fathers
    • |g2.Showdown at Weehawken
    • |g3.Giving the Devil his duel
    • |g4.Overreaction Jackson
    • |g5. "The Eaton malaria"
    • |g6.A not so civil war
    • |g7.When "Mush" came to shove
    • |g8."I’d rather vote for Hitler"
    • |g9.General dissatisfaction
    • |g10.LBJ vs. RFK
    • |gpt. 3.Hail to the chaff
    • |g1.Zachary Taylor
    • |g2. Franklin Pierce
    • |g3.James Buchanan
    • |g4.Andrew Johnson
    • |g5.Ulysses S. Grant
    • |g6.Grover Cleveland
    • |g7.William McKinley
    • |g8.William Howard Taft
    • |g9.Woodrow Wilson -|g10.John Tyler
    • |gpt. 4. Congressional follies
    • |g1.Floor fights
    • |g2. Sexcapades
    • |gpt. 5.Cruel campaigns
    • |g1."One continued tempest of malignant passions"
    • |g2."May God Almighty forgive her murderers"
    • |g3. "Ahorrid looking wretch he is"
    • |g4."Ma! Ma! Where’s my Pa?"
    • |gpt. 6. The American Hall of Shame
    • |g1.Benedict Arnold : hero, traiter, whiner
    • |g2.Aaron Burr : "Embryo-Caeser"
    • |g3.Roger Taney : one mean supreme
    • |g4.Henry Wirz : manufactured monster
    • |g5.A. Mitchell Palmer : seeing red
    • |g6.Warren G. Harding : nice guy finishes last
    • |g7.Joe McCarthy : Wisconsin sleaze
    • |g8. t J. Edgar Hoover : what a drag
    • |g9.Richard Nixon : say what?
    • |gpt. 7.Murder, madness, and just plain strange episodes
    • |g1.Bewitched
    • |g2.The man who would be queen
    • |g3.Cellar dweller
    • |g4.Explorer off course
    • |g5. The case of the cuckholded congressman
    • |g6.The other assassinations
    • |gpt. 8.Remains to be seen
    • |g1. Boiling "Mad" 00|g2.Tom Paine’s farewell tour
    • |g3. Abe Lincoln’s indecent exposure
    • |g4.The "resurrection" of John Scott Harrison
    • |g5.John Paul Jones : pickled in Paris
    • |gappendix 1.Presidents of the United States
    • |gappendix 2.A brief history of the United States (through 1980)
    • Select bibliography
    • Acknowledgments

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    • 0142001929
    • 9780142001929

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