Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief From the Oval OfficeWorkman Publishing Company, 10.02.2015 - 272 Seiten There’s the office: President of the United States. And then there’s the man in the office—prone to temptation and looking to unwind after a long day running the country. Celebrating the decidedly less distinguished side of the nation’s leaders, humor writer Brian Abrams offers a compelling, hilarious, and true American history on the rocks—a Washington-to-Obama, vice-by-vice chronicle of how the presidents like to party. From explicit love letters to slurred speeches to nude swims at Bing Crosby’s house, reputations are ruined and secrets bared. George Washington brokered the end of the? American Revolution over glasses of Madeira. Ulysses S. Grant rarely drew a sober breath when he was leading the North to victory. And it wasn’t all liquor. Some presidents preferred their drugs—Nixon was a pill-popper. And others chased women instead—both ?the professorial Woodrow Wilson (who signed his love letters “Tiger”) and the good ol’ boy Bill Clinton, though neither could hold a candle to Kennedy, who also received the infamous Dr. Feelgood’s “vitamin” injections of pure amphetamine. Illustrated throughout with infographics (James Garfield’s attempts at circumnavigating the temperance movement), comic strips (George Bush Sr.’s infamous televised vomiting incident), caricatures, and fake archival documents, the book has the smart, funny feel of Mad magazine meets The Colbert Report. Plus, it includes recipes for 44 cocktails inspired by each chapter’s partier-in-chief. |
Inhalt
1 | |
His Rotunditys Morning Routine | 7 |
Riding Dining and a Little UnBending | 11 |
His Fine Portly Buxom Dame | 16 |
Holiday Road | 22 |
Gambling Furniture | 26 |
Animal House | 30 |
Martin Van Ruin | 38 |
The Mighty Lord of the Wilderness | 127 |
Continuously Hungry | 132 |
A Passionate Scholar | 139 |
Scandalous | 143 |
The Unknown Comic | 150 |
Lock Stock and Bootleggers Barrels | 154 |
American Hero Awful Bartender | 160 |
Straight Shooter | 168 |
32 Days | 47 |
His Accidency | 50 |
Workaholic | 54 |
The Hazards of a Teetotaler Lifestyle | 59 |
Cult Obscurity | 63 |
Hero of Many a WellFought Battle | 66 |
Bosom Buddies | 71 |
A House in Disarray | 77 |
In the Face of My Nation | 83 |
A Natural Craving | 87 |
The Water Flowed Like Champagne | 96 |
Undoing the Hayes Ban | 99 |
The Swinging Garden of Babylon | 102 |
Sheriff Jumbo | 109 |
The Pious Moonlight Dude | 115 |
Stealth Operation | 120 |
Frat Boys Take the Stand | 124 |
First Couch Potatoes | 172 |
The Carnal Adventures of JFK and His Highly Influential Vice President JJ | 176 |
The Texas White House | 186 |
All the Presidents Meds | 193 |
Memories of Jerry | 198 |
Brothers Keeper | 203 |
Raising the Drinking Age | 208 |
The Vomiting Incident | 212 |
Slick Willy | 217 |
The Demon Looking Back | 223 |
The Choom Gang | 228 |
So Who Partied the Hardest? | 233 |
Party Appendix | 235 |
Additional Recipes | 240 |
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Acknowledgments | 260 |
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