Presidential Diversions: Presidents at Play from George Washington to George W. BushHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007 - Počet stran: 419 Paul F. Boller, Jr.'s widely admired and bestselling anecdotal histories have uncovered new aspects and hidden dimensions in the lives of our presidents. Now he turns to an uncharted--but unexpectedly revealing--element of our leaders' personalities as he brings us stories of what the presidents did for fun.In thumbnail portraits of every president through George W. Bush, Boller chronicles their taste in games, sports, and cultural activities. George Washington had a passion for dancing and John Quincy Adams skinny-dipped in the Potomac; Grover Cleveland loved beer gardens and Woodrow Wilson made a failed effort to write fiction; Calvin Coolidge cherished his afternoon naps, as did Lyndon Johnson his four-pack-a-day cigarette habit; Jimmy Carter was a surprisingly skilled high diver and Bush Senior loved to parachute. The sketches revitalize even the most familiar of our leaders, showing us a new side of our presidents--and their presidencies. |
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The Dignified George Washington | 1 |
The Conscientious John Adams | 13 |
The Gifted Thomas Jefferson | 23 |
The Learned James Madison | 35 |
The Unpretentious James Monroe | 42 |
The Aquatic John Quincy Adams | 48 |
The TwoFisted Andrew Jackson | 55 |
The HighToned Martin Van Buren | 63 |
The Kindly William McKinley | 166 |
The Energetic Theodore Roosevelt | 173 |
The Portly William Howard Taft | 188 |
The Scholarly Woodrow Wilson | 195 |
The Bloviating Warren G Harding | 205 |
The Laconic Calvin Coolidge | 212 |
The Diligent Herbert Hoover | 221 |
The Resourceful Franklin D Roosevelt | 229 |
The Amiable William Henry Harrison | 70 |
The Hospitable John Tyler | 75 |
The Assiduous James K Polk | 81 |
The Unpretentious Zachary Taylor | 86 |
The Earnest Millard Fillmore | 91 |
The Convivial Franklin Pierce | 96 |
The Fastidious James Buchanan | 101 |
The Mirthful and Melancholy Abraham Lincoln | 106 |
The Plebeian Andrew Johnson | 121 |
The Undemonstrative Ulysses S Grant | 126 |
The Studious Rutherford B Hayes | 134 |
The Bookish James A Garfield | 139 |
The Leisurely Chester A Arthur | 145 |
The Doughty Grover Cleveland | 152 |
The Austere Benjamin Harrison | 160 |
The PlainSpeaking Harry S Truman | 240 |
The GolfPlaying Dwight D Eisenhower | 250 |
The Dashing Young John F Kennedy | 263 |
The Frenetic Lyndon B Johnson | 274 |
The SportsLoving Richard M Nixon | 282 |
The Agile Gerald R Ford | 293 |
The NatureLoving Jimmy Carter | 302 |
The MovieStruck Ronald Reagan | 312 |
The FastPaced George Herbert Walker Bush | 326 |
The Unflappable Bill Clinton | 336 |
The Physically Fit George W Bush | 348 |
Acknowledgments | 357 |
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