The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told - 100 Tales from History to Astonish

Informationen zum Autor Rick Beyer is the author of the popular Greatest Stories Never Told book series, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been seen on The History Channel, A&E, and National Geographic Channel. He is also an accomplished speaker who inspires and entertains audiences around the country. He lives with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts. Klappentext What most of us don't know about our presidents could fill a book—and this just happens to be that book! From the archives of The History Channel ® comes a treasure trove of quirky presidential history that will truly astonish, bewilder, and stupefy. Like Abraham Lincoln's duel or Jimmy Carter's UFO sighting . . . and let's not forget about the president who went skinny-dipping in the Potomac every day! That's the kind of presidential history you'll find in The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told : One hundred little-known stories to make you shake your head in wonder. If you want to find out how "Hail to the Chief" came to be the president's song, why the Oval Office isn't square, which president saved the game of football, and why Washington, D.C., could have been named Hertburn, this is the book for you. Did You Know About: The custody battle that made George Washington an American? The counterfeiters who tried to steal Lincoln's body? The woman who brought down Andrew Jackson's cabinet? The man who was president for a day? You know what makes the presidents famous, but it's the stuff you don't know that makes them interesting. A feast of fascinating presidential tidbits awaits. Zusammenfassung The author of the highly successful History Channel book The Greatest Stories Never Told returns with new historic tales that your high school teacher never told you, this time focusing on our nation’s leaders The Greatest Stories Never Told and The Greatest War Stories Never Told were filled with compelling, easily-digestible stories, illustrated with photographs from around the globe. Now, author Rick Beyer returns with The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told . In this delightful and fascinating new book, Rick focuses on all the quirky yet meaningful stories that show us we know very little about the presidency. ...

Product details

• Authors: Rick Beyer, Beyer Rick
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2007
• EAN: 9780060760182
• ISBN: 978-0-06-076018-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 185 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Greatest Stories Never Told; The Greatest Stories Never Told
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; Geopolitics, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, General and world history, The Americas, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government, Regional, state and other local government, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: World / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE: American Government / State, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE: Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE: History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE: American Government / Legislative Branch, PHILOSOPHY: Political