Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Picking America's best presidents 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.
Read more
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.
Liked Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives Shares nonfiction, history, presidents -
Which President Killed a Man? Shares history, nonfiction, presidents -
The History Buff's Guide to the Presidents: Top Ten Rankings of the Best, Worst, Largest and Most Controversial Facets of the American Presidency Shares history, nonfiction, presidents -
Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency--21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories Shares nonfiction, history, presidents
“If you want more of the same (history about presidents), start with these.”
-
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World
-
The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
-
Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes
-
Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents
“If it was the presidents that hooked you, try one of these.”
-
Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents: From Wilson to Obama (Politically Incorrect Guides
-
The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
-
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”
-
The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's Leaders
-
The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder and Stupefy
-
Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
-
Nixon Off the Record : His Candid Commentary on People and Politics