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Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

What Your Teachers Never Told you About the Men of The White House

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Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

By: Cormac O'Brien
Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
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Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one! 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 Barack Obama, 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!

©2009 Cormac O'Brien (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Presidents & Heads of State Franklin D. Roosevelt Biographies & Memoirs Politics & Activism United States American History Roosevelt Family Americas Richard Nixon War of 1812

Editorial reviews

Looking for a grand historical drama in which great men undergo great trials in pursuit of great deeds? Well, this is not that book. The great men in Cormac O’Brien’s survey of America’s presidential pantheon are at their laziest, their craziest, and their strangest. Some of the revelations here are old news - Jefferson’s sexual dalliances with his slaves, for example, or Lincoln’s free hand with pardons for soldiers facing executions. Others are truly startling. (Next time some talk-radio pundit accuses a president of gambling away the country’s money, consider that Warren G. Harding actually bet with the presidential china in poker games!) Not Pulitzer material, but Robin Bloodworth’s sure narration makes this a great choice for a long drive.
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An interesting book, although I found it a little more interesting from FDR on because they're presidents who I am familiar with ---

Very interesting

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Overall... It was enjoyable! He does give Obama, Clinton, and Carter more praise than deserved. He Raped the Bushes... And was even overly negative regarding the Reagan success saying he was abhorred by many?!?!

Great before Ford... Heavily liberal bias towards more recent presidents.

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I really enjoyed this book. it was slow at first but got better in time

lots of little know info about our Presidents

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Enjoyed the read ,found to be humorous. Would like to read more on President Harding and his scandals in Ohio , with Harding 's cabin.aa

Wow! our presidents are human!

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This is an incredible book. The content is very funny and engaging. Also, Robin Bloodworth has the perfect voice for narrating this book. If you have any interest in the U.S. Presidents and are not a prude, then you need to buy this book!

Incredible

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