The President Is Useless!: The Extraordinary Tales of Presidential Deaths, Ultimate Days, Burials, and Past (Up to date Version)

*Up to date Version*

A enjoyable, anecdote-filled, encyclopedic take a look at the circumstances surrounding the deaths of each president and some “virtually presidents,” comparable to Jefferson Davis.

Filled with enjoyable details and presidential trivia, The President Is Useless! tells you all the pieces you can probably need to find out about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the newest president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives, together with tales of tried grave robbings, reinterments, vandalism, conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths, and way more.

The President Is Useless! is full of never-before-told tales, together with a suggestion by one outstanding doctor to resurrect George Washington from demise by transfusing his physique with lamb’s blood. You will have heard of a plot to rob Abraham Lincoln’s physique from its grave web site, however do you know that there was additionally makes an attempt to steal Benjamin Harrison's and Andrew Jackson’s stays? The e book additionally contains “Essential Demise Data,” which prefaces every chapter, and an entire customer’s information to every grave web site and death-related historic landmark. An “Nearly Presidents” part contains chapters on John Hanson (first president below the Articles of Confederation), Sam Houston (former president of the Republic of Texas), David Rice Atchison (president for a day), and Jefferson Davis. Exhaustively researched, The President Is Useless! is richly layered with colourful details and entertaining tales about how the presidents have handed.

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