History's Greatest Scandals Book

Smart, educated and accomplished people – the pillars of our society – try to cheat the system in the most convoluted and fascinating ways. These are stories of adultery, perversion, shameless greed, theft and deception – scandal in its rawest forms – that have brought down presidents, prime ministers, clergy and famous people of practically every stripe. The gripping cloak-and-dagger dramas climax in catastrophic exposures and career-destroying indiscretions that rival great fiction and are all the more astounding because they are seminal moments in our history.

With twenty-eight scandalous stories, the cast of characters includes:

• Thomas Jefferson
• Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
• John Profumo
• Catherine the Great
• Fatty Arbuckle
• Jimmy Swaggart
• Roman Polanski
• The Marquis de Sade

Alternately disturbing and amazing, the narratives reveal clandestine affairs, underhanded political dealings, blatant criminal activity and other dramatic episodes that erupt in the lives of these famous people.