Publisher's Synopsis
AT LAST! A history book for people who can't be bothered with accuracy. CONTAINS 1000 UNTOLD SECRETS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, INCLUDING: * Why Jimmy Carter destroyed Washington * How George W. Bush killed John Howard * When Calvin Coolidge appeared nude on his own coin * Who drowned Warren Harding in his own hotel room * What Herbert Hoover really thought when he was attacked by Rin-Tin-TinThe President's Desk is the story of America as seen through the eyes of its most powerful piece of furniture. Standing in the most important office in the land for over a hundred years, it has been sat at by no less than twenty-four of the greatest men who ever lived (I'm leaving out Nixon, obviously). This epic retelling of the history of the United States takes us from the desk's early life as the humble timbers of a barquentine frozen in the waters of the Arctic, through its transformation by decree of Queen Victoria, to over a century in the Oval Office as an eventual antique. Written by SHAUN MICALLEF - star of Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Talkin' `Bout Your Generation and, to a lesser extent, Mr and Mrs Murder. IF YOU NEVER READ ANOTHER BOOK AGAIN, MAKE SURE IT ISN'T THIS ONE.
