Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

by Eleanor Herman
Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

by Eleanor Herman

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Overview

In this fascinating work of popular history, the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings and The Royal Art of Poison uncovers the bedroom secrets of American presidents and explores the surprising ways voters have reacted to their leaders’ sex scandals.

While Americans have a reputation for being strait-laced, many of the nation’s leaders have been anything but puritanical. Alexander Hamilton had a steamy affair with a blackmailing prostitute. John F. Kennedy swam nude with female staff in the White House swimming pool. Is it possible the qualities needed to run for president—narcissism, a thirst for power, a desire for importance—go hand in hand with a tendency to sexual misdoing?

In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Eleanor Herman revisits some of the sex scandals that have rocked the nation's capital and shocked the public, while asking the provocative questions: does rampant adultery show a lack of character or the stamina needed to run the country? Or perhaps both? While Americans have judged their leaders' affairs harshly compared to other nations, did they mostly just hate being lied to? And do they now clearly care more about issues other than a politician’s sex life?

What is sex like with the most powerful man in the world? Is it better than with your average Joe? And when America finally elects a female president, will she, too, have sexual escapades in the Oval Office?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780063021914
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 09/14/2021
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 649,825
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Eleanor Herman is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings, Sex with the Queen, and several other works of popular history. She has hosted Lost Worlds for The History Channel, The Madness of Henry VIII for the National Geographic Channel, and is now filming her second season of America: Fact vs. Fiction for The American Heroes Channel.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Article I Sources 7

Article II The Changing White House 11

1 The Men Who Become President: Risk-Taking Narcissism 15

2 Alexander Hamilton and the Impulse of Passion 21

3 Thomas Jefferson's Pursuit of Happiness 45

4 Graver Cleveland's High Character 69

5 Woodrow Wilson's Throbbing Pulses 91

6 Warren G. Harding's Excruciating Joy 119

7 Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Good-Looking Ladies 151

8 Dwight Eisenhower Out of Practice in Love 185

9 John F. Kennedy's Terrible Headaches 211

10 Lyndon Johnson and Half the People in the World 243

11 Gary Hart and the Monkey Business That Changed Everything 269

12 Bill Clinton Did Not Have Sex with That Woman 287

13 Donald Trump Can Do Anything 315

14 From Ooh-La-La to Bunga Bunga: The Political Sex Scandals of Other Nations 347

Conclusion 361

Bibliography 365

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