History's greatest scandals
Subtitle: shocking stories of powerful people
By: Ed Wright
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Diego, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781607108627
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Scandals; History; Anecdotes; Biography; World history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-255).
Table of contents: title: POLITICAL MISCONDUCT; title: A Question of Paternity : Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings; title: Temperance in all Things : Jabez Spencer Balfour; title: The Worst President in American History : Warren G. Harding; title: A Peculiar Kind of Love : Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; title: "I Am Not a Crook" : Richard Nixon and Watergate; title: An Affair to Remember : John Profumo and the Fall of a Government; title: The Prime Minister Who Got the Sack : Gough Whitlam; title: All the President's Women : Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos; title: The Liberal and the Unstable Stable Boy : Jeremy Thorpe; title: "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Woman!" : Bill Clinton; title: MURDER AND MYSTERY; title: The Enlightened Despot : Catherine the Great; title: "The Interview" : Aaron Burr Jr and the Death of a Founding Father; title: The Star-Spangled Killer : How Daniel Sickles Got Away with Murder; title: The Maestro's Melancholia : Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Stormy Life; title: The Fat Man in the Bathroom : Fatty Arbuckle; title: FALSE PROPHETS; title: The Preacher and the Prostitute : Jimmy Swaggart; title: "Man Raped by Banana" : The Reverend Canaan Banana; title: Praise the Lord and Pass the Loot : Jim Bakker's Fall from Grace; title: ON THE LAM; title: The Fugitive : Caravaggio's Life on the Run; title: "He Wouldn't Take No for an Answer" : Roman Polanski; title: The Case of the Vanishing Aristocrat : Lord Lucan; title: DOUBLE LIVES; title: The Scam Artiste Extraordinaire : Therese Humbert; title: Portrait of a Shadow : The Secrets of Anthony Blunt; title: Good Versus Evil : The Petrov Affair; title: The Pseudocidal Politician : John Stonehouse; title: PRIVATE PERVERSIONS; title: Pleasure Through Pain : The Marquis de Sade; title: A Whip and a Country Garden : Percy Grainger; title: The Obsessive-Compulsive Billionaire : Howard Hughes.