Scoundrels Political Scandals in American History

Introduction and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: "The Day Will Come When Another and More Pure & Virtuous
Legislature, Will Make Null & Void This Sale of Birthright":The Yazoo
Land Fraud
Chapter 2: "If I Were to Name This, I Would Call It the Will o' Wisp Treason":
The Aaron Burr Conspiracy
Chapter 3: "Mr. Sumner, I Have Read Your Speech Twice Over Carefully. It Is a
Libel on South Carolina, and Mr. Butler, Who is a Relative of Mine": The
Caning of Charles Sumner
Chapter 4: "Have Those Men Dismissed by 3 O'clock This Afternoon or Shut
Down the Bureau": Grant Administration Scandals of the 1870s
Chapter 5: "Do You Believe This Man is Crook? If He is a Crook, Convict
Him": The Teapot Dome Scandal
Chapter 6: "I Am the Only Candidate Inspected by the United States Government
and Found to be 100 Percent Pure.": William "Wild Bill" Langer
Chapter 7: "Nobody Sat Down in Front of Me with a Suitcase of Money":
Spiro Agnew
Chapter 8: "I Am Not a Crook": The Watergate Scandal
Chapter 9: "Money Talks in This Business, and Bullshit Walks": The
Abscam Scandal
Chapter 10: "I Have Been in Government Long Enough to Know That You
Don't Have to Ask the Question Explicitly to Know What the Message
Is": The Savings & Loan Scandal
Chapter 11: "I Told the American People I Did Not Trade Arms for Hostages.
My Heart and My Best Intentions Still Tell Me That's True, but the Facts and
the Evidence Tell Me It Is Not": The Iran-Contra Affair
Chapter 12: "All He Was Worried About was Jack. Jack Has to Get His Next BigCheck": Jack Abramoff and Influence Peddling
Chapter 13: "Everybody's Trying to Get Me. It's Unfair. Now Everybody's Saying I'mGoing to be Impeached": 2016 Russian Election Interference
Afterword
References
About the Author