num_pages: 272
description: Theres the office: President of the United States. And then theres the man in the officeprone to temptation and looking to unwind after a long day running the country. Celebrating the decidedly less distinguished side of the nations leaders humor writer Brian Abrams offers a compelling hilarious and true American history on the rocksa Washington-to-Obama vice-by-vice chronicle of how the presidents like to party. From explicit love letters to slurred speeches to nude swims at Bing Crosbys house reputations are ruined and secrets bared. George Washington brokered the end of the American Revolution over glasses of Madeira. Ulysses S. Grant rarely drew a sober breath when he was leading the North to victory. And it wasnt all liquor. Some presidents preferred their drugsNixon was a pill-popper. And others chased women insteadboth the professorial Woodrow Wilson (who signed his love letters Tiger) and the good ol boy Bill Clinton though neither could hold a candle to Kennedy who also received the infamous Dr. Feelgoods vitamin injections of pure amphetamine. Illustrated throughout with infographics (James Garfields attempts at circumnavigating the temperance movement) comic strips (George Bush Sr.s infamous televised vomiting incident) caricatures and fake archival documents the book has the smart funny feel of Mad magazine meets The Colbert Report. Plus it includes recipes for 44 cocktails inspired by each chapters partier-in-chief.
language: English
title: Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief From the Oval Office
publisher: Workman Publishing Company