title: Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the Men of the White House
author:  Cormac O'Brien 
description: Cormac OBrien delivers outrageous trivia in<i>Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents</i>.<i>Paste Magazine<br /></i><br />Your weekly trivia team will thank you.<i>Redeye Chicago</i><br /><br />A fascinating expose from cover to cover.<i>Midwest Book Review</i>
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  # **SECRET LIVES OF THE U.S. PRESIDENTS**
  
  
  **WHAT YOUR TEACHERS NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT THE MEN OF THE WHITE HOUSE**
  
  
  **BY CORMAC O’BRIEN**
  
  
  **PORTRAITS BY MONIKA SUTESKI**
  
  
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  Copyright © 2009 by Cormac O’Brien  
  Illustrations copyright © 2004 by Quirk Productions, Inc.
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
  without written permission from the publisher.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Number: 2003090708
  
  
  eISBN: 978-1-59474-479-2
  
  
  Designed by Susan Van Horn
  
  
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  _Dedication_
  
  
  For my parents, John and Mary Ann, who created a household in which seeking,
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