In “Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief from the Oval Office,” author Brian Abrams shows that while a virtuous public image has been a feature of nearly every presidency, so has an almost total unwillingness (or inability) of the men in office to measure up to it. The truth is that the office has seen its fair share of sots, druggies, philanderers, drunk drivers (of horse and car), gamblers, sexual deviants, nude swimmers, and general debauchees. Abrams covers them all, from George Washington’s heroic levels of alcohol consumption right on down to Barack Obama’s hazy recollections of the Choom Gang.
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