Nathan Miller, John Wiley

Star-Spangled Men

America's Ten Worst Presidents

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Produktbeschreibung

Picking America's best president is easy. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually lead the list. But choosing the nation's worst presidents requires more thought. In Star-Spangled Men, respected presidential biographer Nathan Miller puts on display those leaders who were abject failures as chief executive. With pointed humor and a deft hand, he presents a rogues' gallery of the men who dropped the presidential ball, and sometimes their pants as well. Miller includes Richard M. Nixon, who was forced to resign to escape impeachment; Jimmy Carter, who proved that the White House is not the place for on-the-job training; and Warren G. Harding, who gave "being in the closet" new meaning as he carried on extramarital interludes in one near the Oval Office. This current edition also includes a new assessment of Bill Clinton -- who has admitted lying to his family, his aides, his cabinet, and the American people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780684852065
• ISBN-10: 0684852063
• Artikelnr.: 22074345

Autorenporträt

Nathan Miller (1927–2004) was an award-winning journalist and the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of twelve works of history and biography, including FDR: An Intimate History, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life, and War at Sea.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
AMERICA'S TEN WORST PRESIDENTS
(IN THE ORDER OF THEIR WORSTNESS, FROM THE POOR TO THE HORRID)
PROLOGUE
(IN WHICH THE CRITERIA FOR MAKING THIS LIST ARE DISCUSSED)
FOREWORD TO THE TOUCHSTONE EDITION
I. Jimmy Carter, who showed that the White House is not the place for
on-the-job training
II. William Howard Taft, who was so fat he got stuck in a White House
bathtub
III. Benjamin Harrison, who looked like a medieval gnome and had a
handshake like "a wilted petunia"
IV. Calvin Coolidge, who was a living embodiment of Woody Allen's
observation that "eighty percent of success is showing up"
V. Ulysses S. Grant, who proves that old soldiers should fade away rather
than go to the White House
VI. Andrew Johnson, who declared, "I am right" about Reconstruction -- but
was wrong
VII. Franklin Pierce, who said, "There's nothing left...but to get drunk,"
after being denied renomination -- and promptly did so
VIII. James Buchanan, who was on the government payroll for forty years and
never had an original idea
IX. Warren Gamaliel Harding, who gave being "in the closet" a new meaning
X. Richard Milhous 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
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX