| A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing Contributor(s): Farquhar, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142001929 ISBN-13: 9780142001929 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: Following on the heels of his national bestseller, "A Treasury of Royal Scandals, " Farquhar returns with a witty compendium of the most salacious, outrageous, and quirky misdeeds in American history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science | Conspiracy Theories |
| Dewey: 973.099 |
| LCCN: 2003044457 |
| Series: Michael Farquhar Treasury |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.34" W x 7.94" (0.64 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; 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. We can take comfort in the fact that we are no worse and no better than our forebears. But we do have better media coverage. Bonus educational material:
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