J. Michael Martinez is the author or editor of 15 books on American history and law including the Rowman & Littlefield titles A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II (2016), Terrorist Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War Era to the Present (2012), Coming for to Carry Me Home: Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow (2011), and Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux, Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire during Reconstruction (2007). He is a practicing attorney in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Matter (dedication, epigraph, table of contents)

Photograph Captions

Introduction and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: My Real Crime is An Amorous Connection with His Wife: Alexander Hamilton and Maria Reynolds

Chapter 2: Dreams of Freedom in His Slave's Embrace: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Chapter 3: She is as Chaste as a Virgin: Andrew Jackson and the Petticoat Affair

Chapter 4: You Have Dishonored My House, and You Must Die!: Daniel Sickles and Philip Barton Key II

Chapter 5: I Never Kissed Miss Tilton, I Never Told a Lie!: Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton

Chapter 6: Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!: Grover Cleveland's Illegitimate Son

Chapter 7: It's a Good Thing I'm Not a Woman. I Would Always be Pregnant. I Can't Say No: Warren G. Harding, Carrie Phillips, and Nan Britton

Chapter 8: She had the WAYS; he had the MEANS: Wilbur Mills and Fanne Foxe

Chapter 9: If Anybody Wants to Put a Tail on Me, Go Ahead. They'll be Very Bored: Gary Hart and Donna Rice

Chapter 10: This Shadow Life Made a Mockery of My Marriage: Bob Packwood

Chapter 11: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Woman, Miss Lewinsky: Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

Chapter 12: Out of Respect for My Family, and Out of a Specific Request from the Levy family, I Think It's Best That I Not Get into Those Details: Gary Condit and Chandra Levy

Chapter 13: If Only He'd Hired a Hooker Like a Normal Congressman: Anthony Weiner

Chapter 14: Who Would Have Thought That 90 Seconds with Donald Trump Would Turn into 90 Percent of My Life?: Donald Trump's Sex Scandals

Afterword

References

About the Author