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Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

What Your Teachers Never Told you About the Men of The White House

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Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

By: Cormac O'Brien
Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
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Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one! Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents features outrageous and uncensored profiles of the men in the White House - complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright wacko facts. You’ll discover that:

  • George Washington spent a whopping 7% of his salary on booze
  • John Quincy Adams loved to skinny-dip in the Potomac River
  • Gerald Ford once worked as a Cosmopolitan magazine cover model
  • Warren G. Harding gambled with White House china when he ran low on cash
  • Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting in Georgia
  • And Richard Nixon . . . sheesh, don’t get us started on Nixon!

With chapters on everyone from George Washington to Barack Obama, Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents tackles all the tough questions that other history books are afraid to ask: How many of these guys were cheating on their wives? Are there really secret tunnels underneath the White House? And what was Nancy Reagan thinking when she appeared on Diff’rent Strokes? American history was never this much fun in school!

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Editorial reviews

Looking for a grand historical drama in which great men undergo great trials in pursuit of great deeds? Well, this is not that book. The great men in Cormac O’Brien’s survey of America’s presidential pantheon are at their laziest, their craziest, and their strangest. Some of the revelations here are old news - Jefferson’s sexual dalliances with his slaves, for example, or Lincoln’s free hand with pardons for soldiers facing executions. Others are truly startling. (Next time some talk-radio pundit accuses a president of gambling away the country’s money, consider that Warren G. Harding actually bet with the presidential china in poker games!) Not Pulitzer material, but Robin Bloodworth’s sure narration makes this a great choice for a long drive.
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An interesting book, although I found it a little more interesting from FDR on because they're presidents who I am familiar with ---

Very interesting

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I really enjoyed this book. it was slow at first but got better in time

lots of little know info about our Presidents

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Overall... It was enjoyable! He does give Obama, Clinton, and Carter more praise than deserved. He Raped the Bushes... And was even overly negative regarding the Reagan success saying he was abhorred by many?!?!

Great before Ford... Heavily liberal bias towards more recent presidents.

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Overall, I found this book to be pretty entertaining. It contained a lot of new information that I dod not have previous knowledge of. My biggest issue is that much of book comes from a very left leaning narrative. Liberal presidents tend to be paintes in a much better light than that of their conservative counterparts. However, this wasn't so much of a problem that I would have any issues recommending it.
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Mike

Contained Lots of Interesting Information

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Enjoyed the read ,found to be humorous. Would like to read more on President Harding and his scandals in Ohio , with Harding 's cabin.aa

Wow! our presidents are human!

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This is an incredible book. The content is very funny and engaging. Also, Robin Bloodworth has the perfect voice for narrating this book. If you have any interest in the U.S. Presidents and are not a prude, then you need to buy this book!

Incredible

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I love hearing about the good and the bad of significant characters in history. This book was right up my alley! I'd say more, but just do yourself a favor and read it...

One of my new favorite books

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Definitely amusing. Hopefully folks will catch on that several “stories” are embellished and pure fiction.

Mostly satire

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This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Save your time and go to Wikipedia

Has Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents turned you off from other books in this genre?

No I love history

Would you listen to another book narrated by Robin Bloodworth?

Never again

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents?

All this is common knowledge

Any additional comments?

No

A real bore nothing new in here

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Very little of the book was information I haven't read before. Google was definitely this author's friend. I'd have given it one more star for effort, but the tone was so over the top snarky for every Republican President. Not an objective study at all.

So biased.

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