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SEX WITH PRESIDENTS
While Americans have a reputation for being strait-laced, many of the nation's leaders have been anything but puritanical. Alexander Hamilton had a steamy affair with a blackmailing prostitute. John F. Kennedy swam nude with female staff in the White House swimming pool. Is it possible the qualities needed to run for president - narcissism, a thirst for power, a desire for importance - go hand in hand with a tendency to sexual misdoing?
In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Eleanor Herman revisits some of the sex scandals that have rocked the nation's capital and shocked the public. She asks the provocative questions: does rampant adultery show a lack of character or the stamina needed to run the country? Or perhaps both?
While Americans have judged their leaders' affairs harshly compared to other nations, did they mostly just hate being lied to? And do they now clearly care more about issues other than a politician's sex life? What is sex like with the most powerful man in the world? And when America finally elects a female president, will she, too, have sexual escapades in the Oval Office?
This striking new work will offer fresh insights into how the country's views on sex and power are changing.
Eleanor Herman is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings, Sex with the Queen, and several other works of popular history. She has hosted Lost Worlds for The History Chan- nel, The Madness of Henry VIII for National Geographic Channel, and America: Fact vs. Fiction for the American Heroes Channel. Herman lives with her husband, their yellow lab, and her four very dignified cats in McLean, Virginia.
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Published 2020-09-01 by William Morrow |