Histories Greatest Scandals: Shocking Stories of Powerful People

Millers Point NSW: Pier 9 an Imprint of Murdoch Books, 2006. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255 pages, illustrated. Overseas customers please note the bookis heavy and may attract additional postage. "Tells of adultery, perversion, shameless greed, theft, and deception that have brought down presidents, prime ministers, clergy and famous people of practically every stripe. Each tale shocks us, sometimes for its audacity, sometimes its complexity and sometimes its pure idiocy.' CONTENTS: A question of paternity: Thomas Jefferson and Sally hemmings Temperance in all things: Jabez Spencer Balfour The worst president in American history: Warren G. Harding A peculiar kind of love: Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson 'I am not a crook': Richard Nixon and Watergate An affair to remember: John profuma and the fall of a government The prime minister that got the sack: Gough Whitlam All the president's women: Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos The Liberal and the unstable stable boy: Jeremy Thorpe 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman!': Bill Clinton The enlightened despot: Catherine the Great 'The interview': Aaaran Burr Jr and the death of a founding father The star-spangled killer: how Daniel Sickles got away with murder The maestro's melancholia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky's stormy life The fat man in the bathroom: Fatty Arbuckle The preacher and the prostitute: Jimmy Swaggert 'Man raped by Banana': the Reverednd Canaan Banana Praise the lord and pass the loot: Jim Bakker's fall from grace The fugitive: Caravaggio's life on the run 'He wouldn't take no for an answer': Roman Polanski The case of the vanishing aristocrat: Lord Lucan The scam artiste extraordinaire: Therese Humbert Portrait of a shadow: the secrets of Anthony Blunt Good versus evil: the Petrov affair The pseudocidal politician: John Stonehouse Pleasure through pain: the Marquis de Sade A whip and a country garden: Percy Grainger The obsessive-compulsuve billionaire: Howard Hughes.