Fall from grace : sex, scandal, and corruption in American politics from 1702 to the present /

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Main Author: Ross, Shelley
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1988.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of 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.