ISBN: 9780345353818

Edition: First edition.

Description: xxi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Target Audience Note: Adult

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index.

Contents:

• A Timeline of American Scandals
• Introduction
• "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 1988 Presidential Campaign
• References
• Index.

LCCN: 87091422

Control Number: 3262145

Subjects:

• Political corruption -- United States -- History.
• Scandals -- United States -- History.
• Sex scandals -- United States -- History.
• United States -- Politics and government.