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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 Channela® 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. ISBN 9780060760182
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Pages : 224
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