Table of Contents
Introduction vi
Party Key viii
1 George Washington: The High and Mighty General 1
2 John Adams: His Rotundity's Morning Routine 7
3 Thomas Jefferson: Riding, Dining, and a Little Unbending 11
4 James Madison: His Fine, Portly, Buxom Dame 16
5 James Monroe: Holiday Road 22
6 John Quincy Adams: Gambling Furniture 26
7 Andrew Jackson: Animal House 30
8 Martin Man Buren: Martin Van Ruin 38
9 William Henry Harrison: 32 Days 47
10 John Tyler: His Accidency 50
11 James K. Polk: Workaholic 54
12 Zachary Taylor: The Hazards of a Teetotaler Lifestyle 59
13 Millard Fillmore: Cult Obscurity 63
14 Franklin Pierce: Hero of Many a Well-Fought Bottle 66
15 James Buchanan: Bosom Buddies 71
16 Abrahan Lincoln: A House in Disarray 77
17 Andrew Johnson: In the Face of my Nation 83
18 Ulysses S. Grant: A Natural Craving 87
19 Rutherford B. Hayes: The Water Flowed Like Champagne 96
20 James A. Garfield: Undoing the Hayes Ban 99
21 Chester A. Arthur: The Swinging Garden of Babylon 102
22 Grover Cleveland: Sheriff Jumbo 109
23 Benjamin Harrison: The Pious Moonlight Dude 115
24 Grover Cleveland: Stealth Operation 120
25 William McKinley: Frat Boys Take the Stand 124
26 Theodore Roosevelt: The Mighty Lord of the Wilderness 127
27 William Howard Taft: Continuously Hungry 132
28 Woodrow Wilson: A Passionate Scholar 139
29 Warren G. Harding: Scandalous 143
30 Calvin Coolidge: The Unknown Comic 150
31 Herbert Hoover: Lock, Stock, and Bootlegger's Barrels 154
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt: American Hero, Awful Bartender 160
33 Harry S. Truman: Straight Shooter 168
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower: First Couch Potatoes 172
35 John F. Kennedy: The Carnal Adventures of JFK and His Highly Influential Vice President. "JJ" 176
36 Lyndon B. Johnson: The Texas White House 186
37 Richard M. Nixon: All the Presidents Meds 193
38 Gerald R. Ford: Memories of Jerry 198
39 Jimmy Carter: Brother's Keeper 203
40 Ronald Reagan: Raising the Drinking Age 208
41 George H. W. Bush: The Vomiting Incident 212
42 William Jefferson Clinton: Slick Willy 217
43 George W. Bush: The Demon Looking Back 223
44 Barack Obama: The Choom Gang 228
Conclusion 233
Party Appendix 235
Additional Recipes 240
Sources 243
Acknowledgments 260