Browse all 8 titles in The Secret Lives of... series
The classic Quirk compendium of presidential biographies is
back, revised just in time to include America's newest
commander in chief.
With presidential politics at a fever pitch these days, it's hard to
keep fact from fiction--but throughout the history of our country, our
leaders have had lives way weirder, quirkier, and more checkered
than anything the opposition can sling. 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
Gerald Ford once worked as a Cosmopolitan magazine
cover model
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 President
#45, whoever he (or she!) may be, Secret Lives of the U.S.
Presidents tackles all the tough questions that other history books
are afraid to ask: How many of these guys were cheating on their
wives? Are there really secret tunnels underneath the White
House? And what was Nancy Reagan thinking when she appeared
on Diff'rent Strokes? American history was never this much fun in
school!
A rejacketed and updated version of a perennial Quirk backlist
favorite
New chapter will feature whoever the next president is--we'll be ready
to hit the presses as soon as the votes are tallied!
Great fun nonfiction reading for the casual history buff...way easier
and more lively to read than David McCullough or Robert Caro