A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Softcover

Lachman, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620870967 ISBN 13: 9781620870969

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States—Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s highest office eventually came to take responsibility for his son is a thrilling one that reads like a sordid romance novel—including allegations of rape, physical violence, and prostitution. The stunning lengths that Cleveland undertook to conceal what really happened the evening of his son’s conception are truly astonishing—including forcing the unwed mother, Maria Halpin, into an insane asylum.
A Secret Life also finally reveals what happened to Grover Cleveland’s son. Some historians have suggested that he became an alcoholic and died a young man—but Lachman definitively establishes his fate here for the first time. In this gripping historical narrative, Charles Lachman sets the scandal-plagued record straight with a tightly-coiled plot that provides for narrative history at its best.

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Review:

Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger or John Edwards. One of the greatest political sex scandals happened to Grover Cleveland.

Lachman's research and crisp, clear writing keep the reader eager to learn more about the Buffalo native who twice was elected to the nation's highest office.

Delves deeply into the affair . . . in florid cinematic detail.

Grover Cleveland is hot! Former Post reporter Charles Lachman rips the lid off the sex scandals--and coverups--of the man who became the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.

Splendid . . . amusingly sordid. --John Presta

A Secret Life is another success, a blend of sharp detective work - he even finds out what happened to Cleveland's supposed son - and history that reads like a gripping novel. --Randy Dotinga (07/29/2011)

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1620870967
• ISBN 13: 9781620870969
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496