IMPERFECT PRESIDENTS: TALES OF MISADVENTURE AND TRIUMPH

the long version

"In this portrait of the American presidency, Jim Cullen takes twelve presidents down from their pedestals by examining key missteps in their careers - and how they transcended them. Examples include Abraham Lincoln smearing a preacher and rediscovering his religious vision in emancipating slaves; Lyndon Johnson's electoral fraud in his 1948 Senate race and his role in the signing of the Voting Rights Act; and Ronald Reagan's subversion of the Constitution in the Iran-Contra affair and affirmation of world peace in helping bring about the end of the Cold War."--Jacket.