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How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
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How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
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How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
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How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

Written by Daniel O'Brien

Narrated by Richard McGonagle

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.
 
As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first popularly elected president and served the nation, pausing briefly only to beat a would-be assassin with a cane to within an inch of his life. Theodore Roosevelt had asthma, was blind in one eye, survived multiple gunshot wounds, had only one regret (that there were no wars to fight under his presidency), and was the first U.S. president to win the Medal of Honor, which he did after he died. Faced with the choice, George Washington actually preferred the sound of bullets whizzing by his head in battle over the sound of silence.
 
And now these men-these hallowed leaders of the free world-want to kick your ass.
 
Plenty of historians can tell you which president had the most effective economic strategies, and which president helped shape our current political parties, but can any of them tell you what to do if you encounter Chester A. Arthur in a bare-knuckled boxing fight? This book will teach you how to be better, stronger, faster, and more deadly than the most powerful (and craziest) men in history. You're welcome.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 18, 2014
ISBN9780804128070
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How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I received my copy of How to Fight Presidents through the Goodreads' FirstReads program. This was my first book received through this program and Oh. My. God. This was seriously the most hilarious book I have ever read.Daniel O'Brien has managed to cull some of the most interesting facts of our presidents (from Washington to Reagan) and combine them into a book that is shockingly educational. Not only will you be prepared to beat the heck out of ANYONE at presidential trivia...but as the title suggests, should you find yourself traveling back in time and having to FIGHT any of these great men, you'll be prepared. And, if you're like me, you'll laugh until you pee while you're doing it.If you like the site, Cracked.com, you'll absolutely love this book, since its basically one big, extended Cracked.com article. However, if that's not your brand of humor and/or you're easily offended by liberal use of the F word and wang talk, then this might not be the book for you. But, luckily, I absolutely love history, trivia, and hilarity...so this was the perfect book for me. I cannot believe how insanely crazy and dedicated some of our presidents have been...and how crooked others were. Many of these facts were things I already were vaguely familiar with, but something about the writing style really emphasized and brought to life the highlights of our former presidents. As a tour guide who gives haunted history tours, I often tell people that ghost stories are the best way to teach history...and now I may need to rethink that theory! There were a couple of reasons why I only rated this 4 stars, and most of those reasons probably stem from this being an uncorrected proof. There were some minor typographical errors and the conclusion had not yet been added, which was no big deal. However, I would have LOVED to see a bibliography and I would have enjoyed it if the book extended through our current president...but I understand why that was not to be, lol. Overall, I really loved this book and am proud to promote it to anyone and everyone who will listen. I'll also be keeping a close eye out for any further works by this author. Oh, and did I mention the illustrations were awesome, too?!(Also posted on my Goodreads account)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Did you know that a number of former American Presidents would fit in quite well in a Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger action film? Imagine that they now want to beat you to a pulp. What do you do?Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone (among many other things). He intentionally left out any mention of his time as President, because he didn't think it was that important. To quote from this book, "If "leaving your Presidency off of your tombstone" isn't the nineteenth-century equivalent of "walking away from an explosion without turning around to look at it," then I don't know what is." John Quincy Adams was involved in fighting the British when he was eight years old (What were you doing at eight years old?). He also swam the width of the Potomac every day at 5 AM, and thought that having sex outside in the snow was a good idea. James Madison may have been short and scrawny, but he did grab a couple of pistols and a horse, and rode out to the front lines to fight the British during the War of 1812 (as a sitting President).It takes a peculiar amount of ego and ambition to want to be President, but Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson belongs in a category by himself. At age thirteen, as a British prisoner of war, Jackson was forced to march forty miles, barefoot, with an undressed head wound, and suffering from smallpox. If there were no wars to fight, Jackson liked real duels. On one occasion, Jackson allowed the other man to shoot first. The bullet almost hit his heart. Jackson then shot and killed the other man.If a person wanted a private word with Lyndon Johnson, the person frequently had to follow Johnson into the bathroom and watch him poop. Johnson's sexual conquest numbers, while President, were comparable to John Kennedy, the King of Presidential Sexual Conquests. Chester Arthur is compared to Lex Luthor, and Ronald Reagan is compared to Wolverine. William Howard Taft once got stuck in a bathtub; it took four men to extricate him. The biography of Calvin Coolidge reads like the origins of a serial killer. Every day, Herbert Hoover played a game with his friends called Hooverball. Think of volleyball played with a ten-pound medicine ball.Get past the foul language in this book, and this is a huge eye-opener. The reader will look at the past inhabitants of the Oval Office in a whole new way. It's also really funny. This is highly recommended for everyone.