A treasury of great American scandals: tantalizing true tales of historic misbehavior by the founding fathers and others who let freedom swing

Pt. 1: Family ties that bind

and gag. Prepare for a shock ; Mother Mary, quite contrary ; Foundering father ; I now pronounce you miserable ; Dishonor thy mother ; A short, ugly story ; With this ring, I thee dread ; Smother-in-law ; One bad apple tree ; Oh, brother!

Pt. 2: Cold wars. Feuding Founding Fathers ; Showdown at Weehawken ; Giving the Devil his duel ; Overreaction Jackson ; "The Eaton malaria" ; A not so civil war ; When "mush" came to shove ; "I'd rather vote for Hitler" ; General dissatisfaction ; LBJ vs. RFK

Pt. 3: Hail to the chaff. Zachary Taylor ; Franklin Pierce ; James Buchanan ; Andrew Johnson ; Ulysses S. Grant ; Grover Cleveland ; William McKinley ; William Howard Taft ; Woodrow Wilson - John Tyler

Pt. 4: Congressional follies. Floor fights ; Sexcapades

Pt. 5: Cruel campaigns. "One continued tempest of malignant passions" ; "May God Almighty forgive her murderers" ; A horrid looking wretch he is" ; "Ma! Ma! Where's my Pa?"

Pt. 6: The American Hall of Shame. Benedict Arnold : hero, traitor, whiner ; Aaron Burr : "embryo-Caesar" ; Roger Taney : one mean Supreme ; Henry Wirz : manufactured monster ; A. Mitchell Palmer : seeing red ; Warren G. Harding : nice guy finishes last ; Joe McCarthy : Wisconsin sleaze ; 8. t J. Edgar Hoover : what a drag ; Richard Nixon : say what!?

Pt. 7: Murder, madness, and just plain strange episodes. Bewitched ; The man who would be queen ; Cellar dweller ; Explorer off course ; The case of the cuckolded congressman ; The other assassinations

Pt. 8: Remains to be seen. Boiling "mad" ; Tom Paine's farewell tour ; Abe Lincoln's indecent exposure ; The "resurrection" of John Scott Harrison ; John Paul Jones : pickled in Paris

Presidents of the United States

A brief history of the United States (through 1980).