Scorpion Tongues: Gossip Celebrity, and American Politics
by Collins, Gail
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0688149146
- ISBN 13
- 9780688149147
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Synopsis
Did Woodrow Wilson murder his first wife? Of course not. Did Hillary Clinton throw the lamp? Maybe. From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining flair, she speculates on how gossip reflects the current moral compass of the time, noting how a rumor, like an unpredictable summer tornado, can flatten one reputation while a similar story passes over another with hardly a rustle. "Hilariously readable" (The Economist), Scorpion Tongues offers sinful scandals and mild hearsay for every taste.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61376
- Title
- Scorpion Tongues: Gossip Celebrity, and American Politics
- Author
- Collins, Gail
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0688149146
- ISBN 13
- 9780688149147
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- John Quincey Adams, Henry Ward Beecher, Celebrities, Grover Cleveland, Sex Scandals, Homosexuality, Infidelity, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Edith Galt Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Kay Summersby, George McGovern, Edgar Hoover, Gary Hart, Warren Har
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