One Nation Under Sex
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-10503-4 (ISBN)
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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.
Larry Flynt is the legendary publisher of Hustler magazine and has been a famous crusader for Frst Amendment and privacy rights for over three decades.His landmark Supreme Court case, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, is taught in law schools throughout the United States. A former political candidate himself, Flynt remains active in his longstanding campaignto exposesexual hypocrisy in politics and transform the national political dialogue. He lives in Los Angeles, California. David Eisenbach, Ph.D., is a professor of American history at Columbia University, where he teaches courses on political history and the presidency. He was the creator, writer, and host of the two-hour History Channel special, The Beltway Unbuckled, about how presidential sex shaped American history. His first book, Gay Power: An American Revolution, won the ALA 2007 Stonewall Honor Book award and the Lambda Literary Foundation named it a finalist for the LGBT Studies Award. He lives in New York City.
Introduction Founding Flirts and Fornicators Sex and the Civil War Affairs of State The Ballad of Franklin and Eleanor America's Sex Czar The Nude Frontier Sex, Death and the Kennedys The Full Bill Clinton Conclusion: Fulfilling the Pledge
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.5.2011 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-230-10503-3 / 0230105033 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-10503-4 / 9780230105034 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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