A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Foolhardiness, Folly, and Fraud in Presidential Elections from Andrew Jackson to George W. BushThis book profiles eighteen of our funniest-some would say dirtiest-elections, from 1828, the first election in which all states had electors, to the election from hell in 2000. The book also includes chapters on Watergate and impeachment, a final summarizing chapter, and a gallery containing an official photograph and an outrageous saying about each president by one of his contemporaries. |
Contents
Presidential Politics | 1 |
Old Hickory | 9 |
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too | 19 |
FiftyFour Forty or Fight | 29 |
Honest Abe | 37 |
The Stolen Election | 47 |
Ma Ma Wheres My Pa | 59 |
The Bull Moose Campaign | 69 |
Watergate | 131 |
Peanuts and Teflon | 143 |
Read My Lips | 161 |
Its the Economy Stupid | 171 |
Impeachment | 181 |
The Election from Hell | 193 |
Summing Up | 213 |
Presidential Gallery | 219 |
Hoover and Al | 83 |
The Only Third Term | 91 |
Give Em Hell Harry | 103 |
The New Frontier | 115 |
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