{"product_id":"book-ixkh","title":"The Dark History of American Presidents","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe office of the American President has evolved dramatically over the last 200 years, from George Washington's heroic posturing as leader of a renegade nation, to calculated cunning as commander of a nuclear superpower. This colourful inventory of presidential transgressions reveals that every modern scandal is the descendant of remarkably similar predecessors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetailing the disgraces of all forty-four Presidents, from sexual skirmishes to CIA cover-ups, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark History of the American Presidents\u003c\/i\u003e covers every dirty deed committed behind the White House fence, from financial profiteering and insider trading to illicit bugging of the opposition. Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy are all present, as are the more likely suspects such as Nixon. Running right up to the present and including the terms of Presidents Bush and Obama, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark History of the American Presidents\u003c\/i\u003e also tells the story of a nation’s advancement: from post-Revolutionary days of anti-monarchy and slavery, through the bitter strife of internal wars, Reconstruction, boom and Depression, to her emergence onto the world stage as a superpower. Using reproductions of portraits in oil, period caricature and cartoons, as well as superbly-telling 20th century photojournalism, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark History of the American Presidents\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the true face behind what has become the most powerful job in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Findaway World, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49436209545520,"sku":"BDixkh","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/565846-ixkh-Square.jpg?v=1736436507","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ixkh","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}