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Dark History of the American Presidents

Power, Corruption, and Scandal at the Heart of the White House. Dark Histories

By (author) Michael Kerrigan
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Published: 14th Oct 2017
Dimensions: w 192mm h 250mm d 33mm
Weight: 908g
Interest age: From 16 to 99 years
ISBN-10: 1782740279
ISBN-13: 9781782740278
Barcode No: 9781782740278
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The office of the American President has evolved dramatically over the last 200 years, from George Washington's heroic posturing as leader of a renegade nation, to calculated cunning as commander of a nuclear superpower. This colourful inventory of presidential transgressions reveals that every modern scandal is the descendant of remarkably similar predecessors. Detailing the disgraces of all forty-four Presidents, from sexual skirmishes to CIA cover-ups, Dark History of the American Presidents covers every dirty deed committed behind the White House fence, from financial profiteering and insider trading to illicit bugging of the opposition. Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy are all present, as are the more likely suspects such as Nixon. Running right up to the present and including the terms of Presidents Bush and Obama, Dark History of the American Presidents also tells the story of a nation's advancement: from post-Revolutionary days of anti-monarchy and slavery, through the bitter strife of internal wars, Reconstruction, boom and Depression, to her emergence onto the world stage as a superpower. Using reproductions of portraits in oil, period caricature and cartoons, as well as superbly-telling 20th century photojournalism, Dark History of the American Presidents reveals the true face behind what has become the most powerful job in the world.

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