Party Like a President (Paperback)

Brian Abrams

ISBN 10: 0761180842 / ISBN 13: 9780761180845

Published by Workman Publishing, New York, 2015

About this Item

Paperback. 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. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Party Like a President (Paperback)
• Publisher: Workman Publishing, New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761180842
• ISBN 13: 9780761180845
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Mathias, John
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

There's the office: President of the United States. Then there's the man in the office—flesh-and-blood, prone to temptation, and looking to unwind after a long day running (or ruining) the country. Celebrating the decidedly less-distinguished side of the nation's leaders, Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief from the Oval Office offers a compelling, hilarious, and true American history on the rocks.

Illustrated by artist John Mathias, the paperback "circumvents hundreds of years of work by the White House's public relations department," according to Esquire, "to deliver the low-down on the partying habits of the forty-four men that have run the world's most powerful country."

About the Author

Brian Abrams is the author of Obama: An Oral History. He has written for High Times, Mental Floss, Playboy, and other publications. He lives in New York City.


John Mathias is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Seventeen, Tablet Magazine, The Lowbrow Reader and others. He lives in Long Branch, New Jersey.