Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-255)
Contents:
POLITICAL MISCONDUCT A Question of Paternity : Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Temperance in all Things : Jabez Spencer Balfour The Worst President in American History : Warren G. Harding A Peculiar Kind of Love : Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson "I Am Not a Crook" : Richard Nixon and Watergate An Affair to Remember : John Profumo and the Fall of a Government The Prime Minister Who Got the Sack : Gough Whitlam All the President's Women : Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos The Liberal and the Unstable Stable Boy : Jeremy Thorpe "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Woman!" : Bill Clinton MURDER AND MYSTERY The Enlightened Despot : Catherine the Great "The Interview" : Aaron Burr Jr and the Death of a Founding Father The Star-Spangled Killer : How Daniel Sickles Got Away with Murder The Maestro's Melancholia : Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Stormy Life The Fat Man in the Bathroom : Fatty Arbuckle FALSE PROPHETS The Preacher and the Prostitute : Jimmy Swaggart "Man Raped by Banana" : The Reverend Canaan Banana Praise the Lord and Pass the Loot : Jim Bakker's Fall from Grace ON THE LAM The Fugitive : Caravaggio's Life on the Run "He Wouldn't Take No for an Answer" : Roman Polanski The Case of the Vanishing Aristocrat : Lord Lucan DOUBLE LIVES The Scam Artiste Extraordinaire : Therese Humbert Portrait of a Shadow : The Secrets of Anthony Blunt Good Versus Evil : The Petrov Affair The Pseudocidal Politician : John Stonehouse PRIVATE PERVERSIONS Pleasure Through Pain : The Marquis de Sade A Whip and a Country Garden : Percy Grainger The Obsessive-Compulsive Billionaire : Howard Hughes
