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The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics
Kim Long
Delacorte Press
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 055380510X
EAN: 9780553805109
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Watergate. Billygate. Iran-Contra. Teapot Dome. Monica
Lewinsky.American history is marked by era-defining
misdeeds, indiscretions, and the kind of tabloid-ready
scandals that politicians seem to do better than anyone
else. Now, for the first time, one volume brings together
300 years of political wrongdoing in an illustrated
history of politicians gone wild—proving that today’s
scoundrels aren’t the first, worst, and surely won’t be
the last….
From high crimes to misdemeanors
to moments of licentiousness and larceny, this unique
compendium captures in complete, colorful detail the
foibles, failings, peccadilloes, dirty tricks, and
astounding blunders committed by politicians behaving
badly. Amid stories of brawlers, plagiarists, sexual
predators, tax evaders, and the temporarily insane, this
almanac tells all about:
•The only (so far!)
president to be arrested while in office: Ulysses S.
Grant, who was allegedly issued a ticket for racing his
horse and buggy through the streets of Washington, D.C.
•The former New Jersey state senator David J.
Friedland, who disappeared during a scuba diving accident
in 1985. It turns out he staged the accident and served
nine years in prison after being captured in the Maldives.
•Tape-recorded instructions from highbrow
president Franklin Delano Roosevelt on how his staff
should carry out some low-down political
tricks
•The bizarre story of U.S. congressman
Robert Potter, who castrated two men he suspected of
having affairs with his wife. Potter won election to the
state house while in jail—but was kicked out for cheating
at cards.
•Texas congressman Henry Barbosa
Gonzalez: he was charged with assault in 1986 after he
shoved and hit a man who called him a communist. Gonzalez
was seventy years old at the time.
At once
shocking and hilariously funny, here’s a book that exposes
the history of American politics, warts and all—and makes
for hours of jaw-dropping, fascinating, illuminating
reading.
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