Dark history of the American presidents : power, corruption, and scandal at the heart of the White House /
Michael Kerrigan.
Bok Engelsk
| Utgitt | S.l. : Amber Books Ltd
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: An office is born -- Founding fathers : slaveholders and adulterers -- Corrupt consolidation -- A nation divided -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The lost presidents : fraud and folly -- World power : in bed with industry -- Depression and war : the great deceivers -- Cold war : covert operators -- The world stage : media, missiles and misbehaviour.. - "Detailing the disgraces of more than 40 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. Dark history of the American presidents also tells the story of a nation's advancement: from the post-Revolutionary days of anti-monarchy and slavery, through the bitter strife of internal wars, Reconstruction, boom, and Depression, to the United States' emergence on the world stage as a superpower. Using reproductions of portraits, period caricature, and cartoons, as well as ... photojournalism, Dark history of the American presidents reveals the true face behind what has become the most powerful job in the world"--Jacket.
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| ISBN | 1-908696-28-1
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