Great Presidential Wit (...I Wish I Was in...

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Famous for his deadpan humor, New York Times bestselling author Senator Bob Dole here brings us his favorite witticisms and hilarious remarks of this country's commanders in chief. Great Presidential Wit collects the former senator's favorite funny stories and remarks by and about American presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush. Senator Dole tackles the assignment of ranking the presidents from the funniest (Abraham Lincoln) to the least funny (Millard Fillmore), and everyone in between. With chapters cleverly organized according to the senator's own opinions -- from "A Class by Themselves" (Lincoln, Reagan, the Roosevelts) and "Yankee Wits" (Coolidge, Kennedy) to "The Joke's on Them" (Taylor, Harding, Van Buren, Buchanan, the Harrisons, Pierce, Fillmore) -- Great Presidential Wit is the perfect antidote to the long political season and a patriotic reminder that our leaders are human and often witty and amusing.

Über den Autor

Bob Dolewas the longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history. In 1976, he was the Republican nominee for vice president, and then in 1996, he was Republican nominee for president. He served as the chairman of the World War II Memorial campaign and as chairman of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia. Wounded in World War II, Dole was awarded two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, and in 2018 he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. He passed away in 2021 at the age of ninety-eight.

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CONTENTS

Introduction: Backbones and Funny Bones

A CLASS BY THEMSELVES

• Abraham Lincoln
• Ronald Reagan
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt

YANKEE WITS

• Calvin Coolidge
• John F. Kennedy

PLAIN SPEAKER, TALL TALES, AND A POKER FACE

• Harry Truman
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Herbert Hoover

CLASSROOM HUMORISTS

• Woodrow Wilson
• James Garfield

FUNNIER THAN THE AVERAGE PRESIDENT

• George Bush
• William Howard Taft
• John Adams
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Bill Clinton

AND YOU ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE DULL

• Dwight Eisenhower
• Gerald Ford
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• William McKinley
• Jimmy Carter

STICK-IN-THE-MUD

• Ulysses Grant
• James Monroe
• Richard Nixon
• John Tyler
• Andrew Jackson
• Chester Arthur
• John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Johnson
• James Madison
• Grover Cleveland
• James K. Polk

THE JOKE'S ON THEM

• Zachary Taylor
• Warren G. Harding
• Martin Van Buren
• James Buchanan
• William Henry Harrison
• Franklin Pierce
• Benjamin Harrison
• Millard Fillmore

WAITING IN THE WINGS
George W. Bush

Al Gore

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	No Series
ISBN-13:	9780743215275
ISBN-10:	0743215273
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dole, Bob
Hersteller:	Scribner No Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Bob Dole
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.06.2002
Gewicht:	0,347 kg