| Description |
xix, 480 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
George Washington: Shenandoah Valley land theft ; Extramarital affairs and illegitimate children ; Padded expense account ; Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury ; Jay treaty -- John Adams: The XYZ Affair ; Alien and Sedition Acts ; Cabinet insubordination ; Federalist criticism of Adams -- Thomas Jefferson: Sexual liaisons and illegitimate children ; Aaron Burr, Vice President ; James Wilkinson, Governor of Louisiana Territory ; The Two Million Act ; Post Office investigations ; Miranda Expedition ; Josiah Quincy's attempt to impeach Jefferson ; New Orleans Batture case -- James Madison: James Wilkinson -- James Monroe: Furniture fund ; Yellowstone Expedition ; Elijah Mix contract ; The A.B. Plot -- John Quincy Adams: Election of 1824 ; Election of 1828 -- Andrew Jackson: Rachel Jackson ; Peggy Eaton ; Spoils system ; Senate censure of Jackson ; The Trail of Tears ; William T. Barry, Postmaster General -- Martin Van Buren: Illegitimate son of Aaron Burr ; Richard Johnson, Vice President ; Samuel Swartwout and Jesse D. Hoyt ; Extravagant expenses -- William Henry Harrison: John Tyler ; The Poindexter Commission ; Impeachable Offenses Report ; Webster-Ashburton Treaty -- James K. Polk: The Roorback forgery ; James Buchanan, Secretary of State ; Washington Globe -- Zachary Taylor: The Galphin Claim ; Thomas Ewing, Secretary of Interior -- Millard Fillmore: Thomas Corwin, Secretary of Treasury -- Franklin Pierce: Drunkenness ; Andrew Reeder, Governor of Kansas -- James Buchanan: Anne Caroline Coleman ; Homosexuality ; Elections of 1856 and 1858 ; Public printing scandals ; The Covode Committee ; John B. Floyd, Secretary of War -- Abraham Lincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln ; John C. Fremont, Commander of the Western Department ; Simon Cameron, Secretary of War ; Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury ; Suspension of Habeas Corpus ; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy -- Andrew Johnson: Drunkenness ; Impeachment -- Ulysses S. Grant: Black Friday : the Gold Panic of 1869 ; George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy ; William W. Belknap, Secretary of War ; Santo Domingo annexation ; The administration of Washington, D.C. ; Custom houses investigations ; Credit Mobilier ; Robert C. Schenck, Ambassador to Great Britain ; Sanborn Contract ; Whiskey Ring ; Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior ; Drunkenness -- Rutherford B. Hayes: The election of 1876 ; Custom house investigations ; Executive order banning political activity ; Richard W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy ; Ponca Indian removal ; The Star Route Affair -- James Garfield: Extramarital affairs ; Scandals as a member of Congress ; The Star Route Affair -- Chester A. Arthur: Corruption at the New York custom house ; The Star Route frauds ; Political assessments in the elections of 1882 ; William W. Dudley, Commissioner of the Pensions Office -- Grover Cleveland: Father of an illegitimate child ; Augustus H. Garland, Attorney General ; William F. Vilas, Secretary of the Interior ; James Van Alen, Ambassador to Italy ; John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury -- Benjamin Harrison: William Dudley, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee ; James R. Tanner and the Pension Bureau ; Green B. Raum and the Pension Bureau ; The Cape May cottage controversy -- William Mckinley: Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War ; The Cuban post office investigation -- Theodore Roosevelt: Indian, post office, and Oregon land scandals ; The Panama Canal purchase ; Corporate donations in the 1904 election ; U.S. Steel's merger with Tennessee Coal and Iron ; Abuse of the Secret Service -- William Howard Taft: Richard Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior ; Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the FDA -- Woodrow Wilson: Extramarital affair ; Diggs-Caminetti affair ; William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State ; James M. Sullivan, Ambassador to the Dominican Republic ; Henry M. Pindell, Ambassador to Russia ; Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior ; Dollar-a-year men ; A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien Property Custodian ; Warren G. Harding: Extramarital affairs and an illegitimate child ; Teapot Dome ; Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General ; Enforcement of Prohibition ; E. Mont Reily, Governor of Puerto Rico ; Charles R. Forbes, Director of the Veterans Bureau ; Harding's Death -- Calvin Coolidge: Teapot Dome ; Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General ; Ford-Coolidge deal ; Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury ; Charles Beecher Warren, Attorney General nominee -- Herbert Hoover: Hoover and the Cuban sugar lobbyist ; Summer camp on the Rapidan River ; Colorado oil shale lands ; Charles G. Dawes and the RFC loan ; Walter F. Brown and the air mail contracts: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Extramarital affairs ; Louis McHenry Howe, FDR's secretary ; The second Louisiana Purchase ; Works Progress Administration ; Tennessee Valley Authority ; Roosevelt family ; Dollar-a-year men -- Harry S. Truman: Kansas City election inquiry ; Harry H. Vaughan, staffer ; Grain commodity speculation ; Reconstruction Finance Corporation investigation ; Bureau of Internal Revenue ; Special Corruption Inquiry ; Department of Justice investigation ; Dwight D. Eisenhower: Extramarital affair ; Nixon slush fund ; Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President ; Dixon-Yates contract ; Presidential gifts -- John F. Kennedy: Sexual escapades ; Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior ; TFX fighter-bombers ; Billie Sol Estes -- Lyndon B. Johnson: 1948 Senate election fraud ; Robert G. "Bobby" Baker ; Walter Jenkins, Chief of Staff ; Johnson fortune ; Abe Fortas, Supreme Court Justice ; Extramarital affairs and illegitimate children -- Richard Nixon: Marianna Liu ; Spiro Agnew, Vice President ; Nixon jewelry ; Watergate -- Gerald R. Ford: Nixon pardon ; Betty Ford's addictions -- James E. Carter: Playboy interview ; Billy Carter and the Libyan connection ; Hamilton Jordan, Presidential aide ; Bert Lance, Budget Director -- Ronald Reagan: Debategate ; October Surprise ; Samuel Pierce, HUD Secretary ; Wedtech ; Anne Gorsuch Burford, EPA Director ; James Watt, Secretary of the Interior ; Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor ; Lobbying violations ; Douglas Ginsburg, Supreme Court nominee ; Iran-Contra Affair ; Insider trading and other financial irregularities -- George H. Bush: John Tower, Secretary of Defense nominee ; John Sununu, Chief of Staff ; Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice ; Jennifer Fitzgerald, White House aide ; Elizabeth Tamposi and the Privacy Act ; Iran-Contra pardons ; William J. Clinton: Draft status ; Marijuana use ; Sexual affairs ; Sexual misconduct and harassment ; Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, Attorney General nominees ; Whitewater land deal ; Filegate ; Travelgate ; Vincent Foster suicide ; Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture ; Henry Cisneros, HUD Secretary ; Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce ; 1996 Campaign fundraising ; Spying at Los Alamos Laboratory ; Impeachment ; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior ; Alexis M. Herman, Secretary of Labor. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Presidents -- United States -- History.
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Political corruption -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
1568024142 alkaline paper |
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