Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement. Woodrow Wilson's girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor Roosevelt to become a revolutionary crusader for equal rights. The colorful sex lives of America's most powerful leaders have influenced social movements, government policies, elections and even wars, yet they are so whitewashed by historians that people think Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln were made of marble, not flesh and blood. But the truth is about to come out. In One Nation Under Sex, free speech activist and notorious Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt teams up with Columbia University history professor David Eisenbach to peek behind the White House bedroom curtains and document how hidden passions have shaped public life. They unpack salacious rumors and outright scandals, showing how private affairs have driven pivotal decisions—often with horrific consequences. Along the way, they explore the origins of America's fascination with sex scandals and explain how we can put aside out political moralism and begin focusing on the real problems that threaten our nation.
The omens of a domestic dictatorship were clear, Senator Albert Hawkes agreed. “After careful examination of the records during the past ten years, one can only conclude that there is the objective of the assumption of greater power and ...
Like your favorite mall, One Nation under Goods is a browser's paradise, and in order to understand America's culture of consumption you need to make a trip to the mall with Farrell.
Recounts some of the scandals associated with the private lives of the presidents, including rumors of love affairs, illegitimate children, and other episodes.
During our nation's most trying times, it has been LIFE that has provided the images that help us understand, remember, and in the process, renew. Now the editors of LIFE...
He picks up the “cleave” terminology and applies it to the way a man should love his wife—sacrificially and wholeheartedly (Eph 5:28–31). Yet Paul adds a dimension that was only latent in Genesis. He points out that the covenant we ...
Linda Kauffman, Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998), 236. Ronald Ostrow, “Meese Panel Asks Porn Crackdown: Sexually Violent Materials and Actions ...
The renowned historian and cultural critic provides an eye-opening study of the dichotomy in American society--one a conservative, Puritan influence and the other based in the counterculture of the 1960s--examining their influence on family ...
minors, yet suitable for would be “adults:” Contains Nudity, Sex, Violence, and adult (?) Language! All of these wonderful adjectives proudly announce only the “adult” mind is prepared to deal with immorality in an “objective” manner.
He gave his students (in history mind you) a list of sixteen questions relating to sexuality. ... 77 This is just one example of how our schools are moving from teaching basic moral values, to teaching that it's alright to have sex out ...
In the summer of 1932, James Truslow Adams, one of America's bestknown historians—he coined the phrase the American dream—warned that a government failure to uphold the gold clause would represent “a great breach of faith.