Affairs of state : the untold history of presidential love, sex, and scandal, 1789-1900 /

When it comes to presidential sex scandals, Bill Clinton's wasn't the first and it wasn't the worst. In fact, there is a long history of presidential peccadilloes, but these all-too-human stories are rarely told and the details of White House marriages both happy and troubled remain h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watson, Robert P., 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2012.
Subjects:
Presidents > Sexual behavior > United States > History.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
Adultery > United States > History.
Scandals > United States > History.
Présidents > Sexualité > États-Unis > Histoire.
Scandales > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Adultery
Presidents
Presidents > Sexual behavior
Presidents' spouses
Scandals
United States
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: They don't teach this stuff in school
  • Say it isn't so!
  • Presidential peccadilloes
  • Ten stories of presidential love, sex, and scandal
  • "I profess myself a votary to love"
  • "Domestic felicity"
  • Slave owner and slave lover
  • "A petticoat affair"
  • A near miss
  • "The Siamese Twins"
  • "I can never be satisfied"
  • An unlikely union
  • Full house
  • Beloved goddaughter
  • Conclusion: What happens in the Lincoln Bedroom
  • Fatal attraction
  • Making sense of presidential nonsense.

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