Affairs of state
Subtitle: the untold history of presidential love, sex, and scandal, 1789-1900
By: Robert P. Watson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442218345; 9781442218369
Subjects: Scandals; Adultery; Presidents' spouses; Presidents; Sexual behavior; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: They don't teach this stuff in school; title: Say it isn't so!; title: Presidential peccadilloes; title: Ten stories of presidential love, sex, and scandal; title: "I profess myself a votary to love"; title: "Domestic felicity"; title: Slave owner and slave lover; title: "A petticoat affair"; title: A near miss; title: "The Siamese Twins"; title: "I can never be satisfied"; title: An unlikely union; title: Full house; title: Beloved goddaughter; title: Conclusion: What happens in the Lincoln Bedroom; title: Fatal attraction; title: Making sense of presidential nonsense.