Affairs of state [electronic resource] : the untold history of presidential love, sex, and scandal, 1789-1900 / Robert P. Watson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Robert P., 1962-
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012.
Subjects:
Presidents > Sexual behavior > United States > History.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
Adultery > United States > History.
Scandals > United States > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789-1900
Format: Electronic eBook
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.