White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

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Overview

An irreverent look at Presidential foibles, follies, fibs, and moral failures

Were past presidents smarter, more honest, and better behaved that those we elect today? Don’t bet on it! White House Confidential shows that commanders-in-chief have been lying, cheating, stealing, and womanizing from the days of the Founding Fathers. Focusing on the qualities that never made it into White House press releases, the authors look at their sexual misdeeds and strange family relationships, scandals that engulfed administrations, fights with enemies, and questionable money matters. Dip into these pages to find out:

Which president was famous for being the richest man alive because of all his brilliant real estate deals?
Which president was born in Canada, and was ineligible to hold the office of president?
Which president caused some problems by trying to grow “strange herbs” in the White House garden?
Which president often ordered White House staff to rub Vaseline into his scalp while he ate breakfast in bed?
Which president often called his deputy chief of staff “Turd Blossom”?

Updated with new material about many presidents including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, White House Confidential will have you laughing (and sometimes cursing!) as you take a second look at the next occupant of the Oval Office.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781510714205
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 07/19/2016
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 479,841
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Gregg Stebben is the author of seventeen books, including The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom with New York Mayor Ed Koch and Internet Privacy for Dummies, and an editor at Men’s Health magazine. He can be heard regularly on radio stations nationwide. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Jody.

Austin Hill was the author of The Virtues of Capitalism: A Moral Case for Free Markets and a noted radio personality who appeared on some of America’s finest talk radio outlets including KFI in Los Angeles; WMAL in Washington DC and KFYI in Phoenix. He lived in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, Nell, and his son, Graham.

Will Durst is an Emmy-nominated political comedian who would call himself a satirist if it didn’t make people think he had goat legs. He is also a nationally syndicated columnist, author, actor, one-man show writer/performer, former margarine smuggler, and sworn enemy to all tyrants foreign and domestic. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Introduction ix

A Couple of Small Disclaimers xi

1 Weird Family Values! 1

2 Sex! 27

3 Scandal! 55

4 Impeachment! 79

5 Fights! 123

6 Money! 141

7 Prophecy! 167

8 Death! 193

9 Goofballs! 217

10 Veeps! 251

11 Executive Privilege(s)! 265

12 Take This Job and Shove It! 307

Conclusion 313

Appendix A What's in a Name? 317

Appendix B Presidential Firsts 321

Appendix C The George Washington Conspiracy 337

Acknowledgments 349

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