Taylor, Buck, 190
Taylor, Sarah Knox, 79
Taylor, Zachary, 79, 80, 81, 82, 246
telephone, 302, 303
TelePrompTer, 301
television, 257
temporary insanity, 84
Tennessee, 58, 59, 65, 97, 117, 118, 119, 137, 225
Terre Haute Express, 91
Texas, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 163, 240, 250, 251, 262, 263, 264, 277, 284, 285, 286, 308
Texas Revolution, 66, 68
Thanksgiving, 241
Thomas, Norman, 229
Tilden, Samuel, 150
Timbuktu, 51
Titanic, 214, 215
tobacco, 3
Tolbert, Frank X., 263, 264, 265, 266
toll roads, 46, 47
tomatoes, 54
toothbrush, 197, 198, 285, 286
Topeka, Kansas, 242, 243
Townsend, James M., 95
transvestism, 10, 11, 19, 20
Travers, William R., 163, 164
Travis, William B., 64, 65
Trenton, New Jersey, 23
tribute, 34
Tripoli, 34
Truman, Harry, 257, 260, 261, 262, 275
Tunisia, 35
Turkey, 35
Turtle, 22
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 26, 144, 153, 154, 155, 156, 204, 205
Tweed, Boss, 141, 142
Tyler, John, 55, 72, 73, 103
Tyler, Julia, 73
Tyler, Mary, 72
Uncle Sam, 148
unemployment, 227
United Nations Security Council, 292
United Press, 220, 221
University of California, 305
Uris, Leon, 282
USA Today, 297
Utah, 139
Vallandigham, Clement, 129, 130
Van Buren, John, 71
Van Buren, Martin, 67, 71, 246
Vance, Zebulon, 136
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 93, 166
Vanderbilt family, 139
veep, phrase origin, 257
venereal disease, 43
Venice, Italy, 131
Vermont, 33, 48, 292
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 241
Victorianism, 145, 146, 168, 169
Vietnam, 18, 124, 256, 270, 271, 293, 294
Vignali, Carlos Anibal, 292
Vinson, Carl, 259
Virginia, 3, 6, 12, 41, 42, 50, 51, 70, 73, 88, 109, 271, 272, 273
Virginia, 109
Virginia Military Institute, 98, 287
visiting cards, 127, 183
Wade, Benjamin, 85, 135
Waldman, Michael, 292, 301
Walker, Felix, 18
Walker, Jimmy, 227, 236
Wall Street, 1
Walter, Francis, 268
War of 1812, 48, 49, 123, 256
war deaths in American history, 123, 124
Warren, Henry, 193
Washington, Booker T., 197, 198
Washington, Bushrod, 31, 38
Washington, George, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 38, 46, 131, 246
Washington D.C., 48, 49, 63, 82, 114, 116, 179, 200, 206, 229, 276
Washington Conference, 229, 230
Washington Post, 297, 300
Watergate, 211, 288
Watterson, Henry, 202
weather, 30
Weaver, Robert, 279, 280, 281
Webbe, John, 13
Webster, Daniel, 54, 72
Webster, Noah, 17
Weems, Parson Mason Locke, 21, 31, 32
Welch, Robert, 257
West, Mae, 226, 241
West Indies, 104
West Point, 54, 181
Wharton, Edith, 206, 207
wheat deal, 260
Wheatley, Phillis, 17
Wheeler, Joseph, 187
Wherry, Kenneth, 258
whipping, 78
whiskey, 120
White, Andrew D., 202
White, Austin, 256
White, John, 18
White House, 29, 35, 73, 82, 139, 150, 158, 161, 171, 172, 182, 183, 228, 232, 234, 244, 249, 255, 259, 260, 261, 262, 295, 298, 300
White Plume, 242
Whitehead, James, 17
Whitewater, 300
Whitsett, Joseph, 264
Whittaker, Charles, 281, 282
Wilde, Oscar, 105
Wilder, John T., 107, 108
Wiley, Kathleen, 299
Wilkinson, James, 58
William and Mary, 14
Williams, T. Harry, 245
Williams, Walt, 264
Willkie, Wendell, 241
Wilson, Henry B., 220, 221
Wilson, Woodrow, 182, 215, 216, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 250
wiretapping, 211
Wisconsin, 79, 291
World Trade Center, 293
Yale, 62, 104
Yazoo, 36, 37, 90
“Yellow Rose of Texas,” 66, 67
York, 44, 45
Yorktown, 26
Yulee, David Levy, 105
Zuber, William, 65
Acknowledgments
This book could not have been written without the help of those people who unselfishly gave us their personal support as we traveled around the country doing research: Richard Grosse, Wendy Enikeieff, Leigh Thalhimer, Tom Neylan, Kyle Bogertman, Wes Jenkins, David McNatt, Lillian Thomas, Mark Ordan, Jane Hertzmark, Robert Rutledge, Chuck Covington, George Slover, Ellen Rodgers, Melanie and Tex Young, and Tom Reagan.
Many librarians aided us in our research. In particular, we would like to thank the staff of Vanderbilt University’s Joint University Library and Bernice Laks and the reference librarians at Vassar College.
Three people deserve special acknowledgment: M. Glen Johnson, Holman Hamilton, and Dan Kilgore. Others who suggested stories that appear in this book include: Dan Aaron, Thomas Bailey, Robert Barr, John Barsotti, Robert Becker, Hugh Bell, Frank Bergon, Shirley Bill, Wallace Bishop, John Boles, Paul Boller, Jr., Paul Boyer, Clayton Brown, Mark T. Carleton, Thomas Charlton, John Clark, Robert Collins, Virginius Dabney, Hugh Davis, John Davis, Ronald Davis, L. G. DePauw, Douglas Eckberg, Clifford Egan, Tuffly Ellis, Donald Fleming, Ben Ford, George Forgie, William M. Fowler, Joe B. Frantz, Steve Gerstel, Arrell M. Gibson, Steve Gietschier, Kenneth Goldstein, Francis Gosling, Lewis Gould, Dewey Grantham, Donald Green, Robert A. Gross, Jack Haddick, Hal Halliday, Dagmar S. Hamilton, David Helms (the famous tree farmer from Arlington, Washington), John Higham, P. P. Hill, Michael Holt, Kathy Jacob, Kent Keith, Mary-Jo Klein, Lawrence Knutson, William Leuchtenburg, David Levy, John Lindsay, Arthur Link, John L. Loos, Roger W. Lotchin, Peyton McCrary, Catherine McDowell, James McIntosh, Jack Maguire, Alexander Marchant, Robert Merrick, Howard Merriman, James W. Mooney, James T. Moore, H. Wayne Morgan, John M. Murrin, Norman Pollack, Stuart Postle, George E. Reedy, Robert Remini, Don Ritchie, Ray Robinson, Richard C. Rohrs, Philip J. Schwarz, Edward S. Shapiro, William F. Sharp, Randi Shenkman, Larry Shore, Henry J. Silverman, Elbert B. Smith, Stuart Sprague, Lenny Steinhorn, Peter Stillman, Ann Thomas, Charles Vandersee, Frank E. Vandiver, Ben Wall, David J. Weber, Russell Weigley, Bernard A. Weisberger, Richard White, Donald Worcester, Donald Yoder.
About the Authors
RICHARD SHENKMAN is the editor of George Mason University’s History News Network (www.hnn.us) and can be seen regularly on CNN and Fox News. He is the author of five history books including the New York Times bestseller Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History. His most recent book is Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power at Any Cost.
KURT REIGER holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Oklahoma City and heads a company that specializes in innovative horticulture and that can be found on the Web at www.treebag.com.
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