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Move over, Benedict Arnold . . .Oh to be sure, America's first traitor is one of the 101 bastards you will find in this one-of-a-kind account of bad guys in Washington. But compared to some of the gross misconduct in this frighteningly funny history book, well, let's just say he's in good company. This page-turner of a potboiler reveals all the dirtiest little secrets readers never learned in history class. From illegitimate children (we thought Grover Cleveland was too boring to have sex) and illicit trysts (Warren G. Harding in the White House phone booth with his secretary) to turncoats (make up your own mind about Daniel Ellsberg) and traitors (General Wilkinson, aka a Spanish secret agent), you will discover all the dirt worth dishing since the founding of Jamestown.
About the Author
Brian Thornton's most recent fiction project was editing "West Coast Crime Wave" an anthology of crime fiction, all set on the American West Coast, which is now available as a Kindle e-book, published by BSTSLLER, Inc. His fiction has appeared in such venues as "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine", the late, lamented "Bullet UK" and the Akashic Books anthology "Seattle Noir". He is the author of several works of non-fiction, including a piece on Ross MacDonald that appeared in the anthology "A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir", books such as "Honest Abe: 101 Little-Known Truths about Abraham Lincoln" (Adams Media 2010) , "The Book of Bastards: 101 Scoundrels and Scandals from the World of Politics and Power" (Adams Media 2010) and his most recent nonfiction work, "The Book of Ancient Bastards: 101 of the Worst Miscreants and Misdeeds from Ancient Sumer to the Enlightenment" (Adams Media, 2011) . A native Washingtonian, he lives in Seattle with his wife, the writer Robyn Thornton.
