Grover Cleveland s Rubber Jaw and Other Unusual, Unexpected, - Unbelievable but

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Spignesi Klappentext From George Washington to Barack Obama, this collection of weird and wild-but true!-facts will show you a whole other side of our nation's leaders: • Andrew Jackson was married to a bigamist. • Martin Van Buren wore pistols in the Senate chamber in case things got too rowdy. • Franklin Pierce ran over a woman with his horse while in office and was arrested, but was released when the police realized he was the president. • James Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other. • Dwight D. Eisenhower's nickname for his staff driver was "Private Parts." • Barack Obama can bench press 200 pounds. Zusammenfassung From George Washington to Barack Obama! this collection of weird and wild—but true!—facts will show you a whole other side of our nation’s leaders:    • Andrew Jackson was married to a bigamist.    • Martin Van Buren wore pistols in the Senate chamber in case things got too rowdy.    • Franklin Pierce ran over a woman with his horse while in office and was arrested! but was released when the police realized he was the president.    • James Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.    • Dwight D. Eisenhower’s nickname for his staff driver was “Private Parts.”    • Barack Obama can bench press 200 pounds.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Spignesi, Stephen (Stephen Spignesi) Spignesi
• Publisher: Tarcher, J.P. Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780399537431
• ISBN: 978-0-399-53743-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / United States / General, REFERENCE / Trivia, HISTORY / Reference, Trivia & quiz question books, Reference works, United States of America, USA, General and world history, History of the Americas, Trivia and quiz questions