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Fall from grace : sex, scandal, and corruption in American politics from 1702 to the present
Title:
Fall from grace : sex, scandal, and corruption in American politics from 1702 to the present
ISBN:
9780345353818
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Ballantine Books, 1988.
Physical Description:
xxi, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
"We The People...": Scandals of Colonial America -- "Pursuing Judgment Rather than Passion": Scandals in the Life and Times of George Washington -- "The Intercourse with Mrs. Reynolds, in the Meantime Continued": Scandals in the Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton -- "My Head and My Heart": Scandals in the Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson -- "The World is Tired of Us": Scandals in the Life and Times of the Adams Family -- "God Help the Women who Must Live in Washington": Scandals in the Life and Times of Andrew Jackson -- A Heartbeat Away: Scandals in the Lives and Times of Martin Van Buren and John Tyler -- "Corruption Beyond Example": Scandals in the Life and Times of James Buchanan -- "It Would Stink in the Nostrils of the American People": Scandals in the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln -- "Letters Delivered All Right": Scandals in the Life and Times of Ulysses S. Grant -- "Bulldozing" and the "Fire of Lawless Passion": Scandals in the Lives and Times of Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield -- "Tell the Truth": Scandals in the Life and Times of Grover Cleveland -- "Exposed and Confessed Unchastity": More Scandals in the Gilded Age -- "You Can't Cast the Man as Romeo"" Scandals in the Life and Times of Woodrow Wilson -- "The Great Morality Panic of 1924": Scandals in the Life and Times of Warren G. Harding -- An Unwritten Code of Privacy: Scandals in the Life and Times of Franklin D. Roosevelt -- "A Gift Is Not Necessarily a Bribe": Scandals in the Life and Times of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower -- A Tarnished Camelot: Scandals in the Life and Times of John F. Kennedy -- "Move Over, This Is Your President": Scandals in the Life and Times of Lyndon Baines Johnson -- "Obscene Matters": Scandals in the Life and Times of J. Edgar Hoover -- "I Am Not a Crook": Scandals in the Life and Times of Richard M. Nixon -- Post-Watergate Morality: Scandals in the Life and Times of Gerald R. Ford -- "I've Committed Adultery in My Heart Many Times": Scandals in the Life and Times of Jimmy Carter -- "Country Club Morality": Scandals in the Life and Times of Ronald Reagan -- "Let the People Decide": Scandals of the 1998 Presidential Campaign.
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