| Description |
272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"A Lisa Drew book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index. |
| Contents |
Jimmy Carter, who showed that the White House is not the placefor on-the-job training -- William Howard Taft, who was so fat he got stuck in a White House bathtub -- Benjamin Harrison, who looked like a medieval gnome and had a handshake like "a wilted petunia" -- Calvin Coolidge, who was a living embodiment of Woody Allen's observation that "eighty percent of success is showing up" -- Ulysses S. Grant, who proves that old soldiers should fade away rather than go to the White House -- Andrew Johnson, who declared, "I am right" about Reconstruction - but was wrong -- Franklin Pierce, who said, "There's nothing left... but to get drunk," after being denied renomination - and promptly did so -- James Buchanan, who was on the government payroll for forty years and never had an original idea -- Warren Gamaliel Harding, who gave being "in the closet" a new meaning -- Richard Milhouse Nixon, who maintained, "I am not a crook!" - but was -- Epilogue (In which we consider the two most overrated presidents) : Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy. |
| Subject |
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0684836106 hardcover |
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