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    Extreme Presidential Trivia: Little-Known Facts About Our Presidents
    Extreme Presidential Trivia: Little-Known Facts About Our Presidents
    Extreme Presidential Trivia: Little-Known Facts About Our Presidents
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    Extreme Presidential Trivia: Little-Known Facts About Our Presidents

    By Bradley W. Rasch

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    From George Washington to Barack Obama, Extreme Presidential Trivia offers an array of trivia and facts about the forty-four men who have been presidents of the United States of America. Researcher and author Bradley W. Rasch presents a variety of lists, followed by fairly well-known trivia, and finally venturing into the obscure and little-known facts.

    Extreme Presidential Trivia provides the answers to a host of questions surrounding the nations chief executive officers. You can learn which presidents died in office, served as attorneys before holding office, did not have children, were freemasons, attended Harvard, won the Nobel Peace Prize, or were Boy Scouts.

    Designed to educate and entertain, Extreme Presidential Trivia details trivia not found in many history books. Youll learn who was the only chief executive to be elected unanimously; who received a speeding ticket while in office, resulting in the confiscation of his horse and buggy; and who did play-by-play of a Chicago Cubs game on radio.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 21, 2012
    ISBN9781475933055
    Extreme Presidential Trivia: Little-Known Facts About Our Presidents
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    Bradley W. Rasch

    Bradley W. Rasch is an author, college professor, and researcher who has published a number of articles in professional journals as well as several textbooks and popular books. Rasch lives in suburban Chicago and teaches at a local college.

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      Extreme Presidential Trivia - Bradley W. Rasch

      Copyright © 2012 by Bradley W. Rasch

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-3303-1 (sc)

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012910525

      iUniverse rev. date: 6/7/2012

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      OTHER BOOKS BY

      BRADLEY W. RASCH

      PRESIDENTS

      PART ONE

      OUR PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS

      PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE

      PRESIDENTS BORN BEFORE THE UNITED STATES BECAME A COUNTRY

      PRESIDENTS WHO WERE ATTORNEYS

      PRESIDENTS WHO FIRST SERVED AS VICE PRESIDENTS

      PRESIDENTS WHO LOST THE POPULAR VOTE BUT BECAME PRESIDENT BY HAVING MORE VOTES FROM THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

      CHIEF EXECUTIVES WHO WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH ALCOHOL

      PRESIDENTS KNOWN TO HAVE CHILDREN OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE

      PRESIDENTS WHO WERE ALLEGED TO HAVE HAD AFFAIRS

      PRESIDENTS WHO WERE SLAVE OWNERS

      PRESIDENTS WHO DID NOT HAVE CHILDREN

      PRESIDENTS WITH ADOPTED CHILDREN

      PRESIDENTS WHO DID PLAY-BY-PLAY OF CHICAGO CUBS GAMES ON THE RADIO

      PRESIDENTS WHO WERE FREEMASONS

      PRESIDENTS WHO WERE BOY SCOUTS

      PRESIDENTS WHO WENT TO HARVARD

      LIST OF FIRST LADIES

      PRESIDENTS WHO HAVE WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

      PRESIDENTS WHO WERE PEANUT FARMERS AND NUCLEAR SUBMARINE COMMANDERS BEFORE TAKING OFFICE

      OUR PRESIDENTS ARE NOT A DULL LOT

      THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES

      PART TWO

      GEORGE WASHINGTON

      JOHN ADAMS

      THOMAS JEFFERSON

      JAMES MADISON

      JAMES MONROE

      JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

      ANDREW JACKSON

      MARTIN VAN BUREN

      WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

      JOHN TYLER

      JAMES K. POLK

      ZACHARY TAYLOR

      MILLARD FILLMORE

      FRANKLIN PIERCE

      JAMES BUCHANAN

      ABRAHAM LINCOLN

      ANDREW JOHNSON

      ULYSSES S. GRANT

      RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

      JAMES GARFIELD

      CHESTER A. ARTHUR

      GROVER CLEVELAND

      BENJAMIN HARRISON

      GROVER CLEVELAND

      AGAIN

      WILLIAM MCKINLEY

      THEODORE ROOSEVELT

      WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

      WOODROW WILSON

      WARREN G. HARDING

      CALVIN COOLIDGE

      HERBERT HOOVER

      FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

      HARRY S. TRUMAN

      DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

      JOHN F. KENNEDY

      LYNDON B. JOHNSON

      RICHARD NIXON

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