Presidential Anecdotes

by Paul F. Boller

Overview

This is a collection of humorous stories about U.S. Presidents throughout history. Originally published in 1981, this edition is updated to include anecdotes on George Bush and Bill Clinton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195097313
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/25/1996
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	472
Sales rank:	838,495
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	1190L (what's this?)

About the Author

Texas Christian University (Emeritus)

Editorial Reviews

*Praise for the first edition:

"A robust, entertaining, collection."—Publishers Weekly

"This is a more than sound refresher in American history: It is a...delightful account of how lucky this country has been in its Presidents."—Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An immensely entertaining collection of bonbons of White House humor. What's most eye-opening is not the wit of presidents—few have been known for that—but that the stories reveal so much about their characters."—Chicago Sun-Times

"Entertaining and effortlessly, unassumingly informing."—Kirkus Reviews

"This fat volume is a choice repository of revealing anecdotes....This is the perfect bedside book."—John Barkham Reviews

"The material Boller has culled is fascinating even when the Presidents are not."—Time

"Boller does a terrific job of humanizing the men who held the nation's highest office."—American Library Association

"Unusual and entertaining....This collection is fine for browsing but even better to read straight through from start to finish."—Associated Press

"[A] stylish smorgasbord of anecdotes."—Newsweek

"A book of stories about American presidents that is as delightful as a box of crackerjacks....Boller has an uncanny instinct for finding stories that are fresh, offbeat, revealing and very funny—in short, all the stories that you should have heard in your college history course but didn't."—Dallas Morning News

"Fascinating and highly readable."—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Delightful, readable, and pleasantly light-hearted."—Library Journal

From the Publisher

A collection of presidential anecdotes from Washington to Clinton revealing much about the character of each, their successes and failures, and the brilliant or silly ways in which they handled the office. Culled from autobiographies, letters, journals, and interviews with family and friends, the quips are both apocryphal and based on fact. Washington did hatch away at his father's cherry tree, but didn't actually cut it down, Harding had a way with words that made H.L. Mencken apoplectic, Eleanor Roosevelt appears funnier than Franklin D., and Reagan was, like Henny Youngman, the king of the one-liner. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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