Sure, they tell you that Washington crossed the Delaware, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and FDR served longer than anyone else. But they don't tell you that:
•Warren Harding fathered an illegitimate child just before becoming president.
•Andrew Johnson was illiterate until his wife, Eliza, taught him to read and write.
•Thomas Jefferson broke his arm jumping out a window when his mistress's husband came home early.
•Woodrow Wilson wrote bawdy limericks for relaxation.
•John Quincy Adams regularly went skinny dipping in the Potomac behind the White House--until a female reporter took his clothes as ransom in exchange for an interview.

History teachers don't tell you about the man who was president for one day. Or about the only first lady who spent time in a mental institution. Or about the president who shot and killed a man.

They don't...but we do--in this captivating collection of presidential trivia by former presidential speechwriter James Humes.