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A freshly updated look at everything you never knew you wanted to know about our country's illustrious line of commanders in chief--updated to include fascinating facts on our brand new 45th president.
You'll find more than 1,000 fun and engaging facts in this book about each and every one of America's forty-four different presidents (forty-five if you count Grover Cleveland, with his two nonconsecutive terms, twice). This revised edition has been updated to include new facts about our most recently elected president. Want to know which president appeared on the nation's very first TV broadcast? (Herbert Hoover, before he was president, in 1927.) How about George Washington's presidential salary? (An exorbitant, at least in eighteenth-century dollars, $25,000.) Who first pardoned a presidential turkey? (Harry Truman, in a debilitating fit of guilt.) We don't know about you, but we can't get enough of this stuff!
Richard Lederer is the author of more than thirty-five books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series. He is founding cohost of A Way with Words on public radio, and his syndicated column "Looking at Language" appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel winner.
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From the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book "Presidential Trivia". In it, you'll find all the details about the lives of the United States presidents, including their feats, fates, families, foibles, and firsts. It answers such questions as: Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first president to be born an American citizen? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but certainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker?The book is jammed packed with details from the lives of our commanders-in-chief. You'll learn about the presidents educations, family histories, likes and dislikes, and careers before the oval office. You'll learn all about our first ladies and vice presidents. Filled with games, anagrams, poems, speeches, and an abundance of tidbits, details, and fascinating facts, this book is perfect for the novice to the history buff. From politics and policy to presidential nicknames and White House pets, "Presidential Trivia" has everything you ever wanted to know about our presidents, and then some.
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Did you know...
THAT JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON BOTH DIED ON JULY 4, 1826, EXACTLY FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE very first independence day ?
THAT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, NOT JOHN F. KENNEDY, IS THE YOUNGEST PRESIDENT WE'VE EVER HAD?
THAT barack obama is only our sixth brown-eyed president?
Filled with quizzes, games, and the most fascinating facts about the most powerful office on earth, Presidential Trivia is the perfect book for the novice to the history buff. From politics and policy to presidential nicknames and White House pets, Presidential Trivia brims with everything you ever wanted to know about our U.S. presidents.
THAT JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON BOTH DIED ON JULY 4, 1826, EXACTLY FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE very first independence day ?
THAT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, NOT JOHN F. KENNEDY, IS THE YOUNGEST PRESIDENT WE'VE EVER HAD?
THAT barack obama is only our sixth brown-eyed president?
Filled with quizzes, games, and the most fascinating facts about the most powerful office on earth, Presidential Trivia is the perfect book for the novice to the history buff. From politics and policy to presidential nicknames and White House pets, Presidential Trivia brims with everything you ever wanted to know about our U.S. presidents.
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- PublisherGibbs Smith
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1423603370
- ISBN 13 9781423603375
- BindingPaperback
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