IMPERFECT PRESIDENTS: TALES OF MISADVENTURE AND TRIUMPH

"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.