Dead Presidents
By Anthony Bergen
E-Mail: bergen.anthony@gmail.com
Hey everybody! Times are tough and money is tight, so I want you all to know that I understand. That’s why you can now buy my book Tributes and Trash Talk: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other for just $4.95! That’s right — for less than $5, you can instantly download Tributes and Trash Talk for your Kindle or your NOOK and start enjoying the insightful, poignant, funny, bitter, and often shocking or downright mean-spirited things that our Presidents have said about each other. My book is filled with over 350 pages of candid comments straight from the mouths of every President from George Washington to Barack Obama, as well as their Confederate counterpart Jefferson Davis.
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Less than $5.00 will get you a copy of my book! Hell, it’s such a bargain I wrote the damn thing and I feel like I should buy a copy. Get your copy of Tributes and Trash Talk: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other instantly for just $4.95!
For now, I will settle for #4 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases list for books about Presidents & Heads of State, but my next book better get to #1!
Then again, you can help try to push me to #1 with this new book of mine, Tributes and Trash Talk: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other. My fans in the United States, United Kingdom, and India have definitely stepped up this week and purchased some copies of my book, but I haven’t gotten any love from Canada! What’s up with that? Same with the Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese editions. I thought I was a worldwide phenomenon, but I must have been mistaken.
It’s okay, though. The world can still make it up to me. You can get Tributes and Trash Talk instantly for just $6.99 from Amazon for your Kindle, iPhone, or iPad.
Did you get a NOOK instead? No worries — head over to Barnes & Noble and get my book at the same low price, a bargain for over 350 pages of remarkable, candid quotes by American Presidents about their fellow chief executives.
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Don’t miss out! After all, I am Chester A. Arthur’s all-time favorite author*!
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*I totally made that up just now. There is no actual evidence that I am President Arthur’s favorite author. Then again, there is no evidence that says that I’m not, so you might want to consider that, too…
tdperrin Asks:
deadpresidents Said:
Awesome job working the plug in there for Tributes and Trash Talk!
I’ve always found the JQA/Jefferson relationship fascinating. Obviously, the John Adams/Thomas Jefferson relationship is one of the most historic and interesting dynamics ever, especially since a lot of it is recorded through their letter to each other or about each other to others.
With JQA, though, what is interesting is that there was a great respect between them and must have been some sort of affection because John Adams, in one of his last letters to Jefferson, half-jokingly referred to JQA, who was President at that point, as “our John” and said that “I call him our John, because, when you were at the Cul de sac at Paris, he appeared to me to be almost as much your boy as mine.”
Like you said, there must have been some animosity on JQA’s part because Jefferson defeated his father. George W. Bush openly admitted to feeling the same way after Bill Clinton beat HIS father for the Presidency. Yet, there were many things that JQA and Jefferson agreed on politically and Jefferson’s protege, James Monroe, was half-mentor, half-partner to John Quincy Adams when Monroe was President and JQA was Secretary of State. Most interesting to me is that, in his personal diary shortly after Jefferson died, JQA eviscerated Jefferson while savagely critiquing Jefferson’s autobiography. It’s a strange relationship - more of a rollercoaster ride, in my opinion, than the off-and-on relationship between JQA’s father and Jefferson.
TR was an especially brutal critic of Jefferson. It’s kind of ironic that the incredibly wealthy Roosevelt saw Jefferson as something of an elitist. I think Roosevelt’s biggest issue was he despised hypocrites and he saw Jefferson as one of the most glaring hypocrites of them all because of slavery. There’s also the fact that Roosevelt looked down on men who didn’t fight when there was a battle to be joined. As Governor of Virginia, Jefferson fled when it appeared the British were on their way to capture him, and Roosevelt saw that as cowardice — even though Jefferson probably couldn’t have lasted 60 seconds in a battle in which he would have been vastly outnumbered by the British and likely would have been summarily executed for treason if he had been captured. Jefferson, as head of government in Virginia, made the right move by fleeing, but Roosevelt couldn’t forgive that or see it as anything but weakness.
For almost five years, I have found a home here on Tumblr for a passion that I have always had — writing about history, particularly the history of our country’s Presidents and Presidency. Dead Presidents began as a place for me to post essays that I never though others would read, and grew into a site that thousands of history-lovers just like me read every day. I’ve been able to share the stories that I love, interact with others who share my interests, and answer thousands of questions in a way that I hope my readers find entertaining, informative, fun, and, even educational.
That is why I have been so excited this week to present my first book, Tributes and Trash Talk: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other. I have been working on several projects and Tributes and Trash Talk is the first to be ready for release, and I’ve been so proud to put it on sale this week. I don’t expect the book to make me rich — if I did, I wouldn’t sell over 350 pages for just $6.99. What it is, I hope, is the beginning of a new phase where I enhance Dead Presidents with several upcoming book projects. In order to do this in a way to make each new book bigger than the last, I ask for your support, and I thank those of you who have already given it.
If you haven’t had an opportunity to pick it up yet, you can get Tributes and Trash Talk, a fun collection of remarkable quotes by our Presidents about the other members of their exclusive fraternity, right now for just $6.99. If you have a Kindle, iPhone, or iPad, you can get the book, which features every President from George Washington to Barack Obama, instantly from Amazon. For those of you with the NOOK device, you download my book right now from Barnes & Noble. And you don’t need a Kindle or NOOK to read Tributes and Trash Talk. You can download the Kindle app from Amazon for FREE and use it to read my book on your smart phone, your tablet, your laptop, or your desktop. I’m old-fashioned and not a big fan of e-books, either, butTributes and Trash Talk looks great on all platforms and it’s a bargain for what it contains!
Thank you all for your continued support of Dead Presidents and I look forward to sharing more of my projects with you in the coming months!
Anonymous Asks:
deadpresidents Said:
I totally understand. I love having a book in my hand and being able to flip through the pages and seeing it up on my bookshelves (or, in stacks of books on my floor since I fill up my shelves so quickly). It’s tough to love an e-book.
Unfortunately, there are no plans right now for printed copies of Tributes and Trash Talk. Believe me, I’d love to have it available in every possible way and I’m working hard to have my next book available in print and in e-book format. But, this first edition of Tributes and Trash Talk will only be available as an e-book. My plan is to update the book every year or two, so I hope to see it in print sometime in the future.
If you don’t have an actual Kindle or NOOK device, there is the option of downloading Amazon’s FREE Kindle app for your phone, your tablet, or your laptop/desktop (Mac or PC). I know it’s not the same as having a book in your hands, but Tributes and Trash Talklooks pretty good when you read it via that free app. You can even read it through your browser after downloading the Kindle app and buying the book.
I am excited and proud to announce that my book, Tributes and Trash Talk: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other, is available for purchase right now! That’s right…I wrote a book and you can buy it this very moment!
Maybe you’re searching for a last-minute gift for a history-lover or want to buy yourself a little gift (I think you deserve it). Maybe you just want to support Dead Presidents and your old buddy Anthony. You don’t need an excuse, you just need $6.99 to get Tributes and Trash Talk instantly via Amazon for your Kindle, iPhone, or iPad.
Tributes and Trash Talk is a fascinating collection of remarkable quotes by the small group of Americans who have occupied the Presidency about the other members of their exclusive fraternity, from George Washington to Barack Obama (and even including Confederate President Jefferson Davis). I’m extremely excited to publish this book, and grateful for the support that I know I can count on from my fellow Presidential history buffs here on Tumblr.
With over 350 pages of candid, sometimes poignant, often caustic commentary by the Presidents about the Presidents, Tributes and Trash Talk: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other is a bargain and an insightful look at how our nation’s Chief Executive felt about one another. Buy it instantly from Amazon for your Kindle, iPhone, or iPad. If you have a Nook, the book should be available from Barnes & Noble later tonight and I’ll be sure to share that link when it goes live.
I am proud and excited to share with everyone the cover to my new book, TRIBUTES AND TRASH TALK: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other, which will be available this week on Amazon.
I’m also incredibly fortunate to have had the immensely talented and all-around amazing Betsy Dye design the cover, which is beyond anything I could have imagined, let alone created myself. Betsy’s on Tumblr and currently putting together her graphic design website portfolio. Artistically, she is a magician. Betsy also happens to be the personification of the words “lovely” and “awesome”.
More to come this week as we approach the release date of TRIBUTES AND TRASH TALK!
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th President of the United States (1953-1961), Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1957
“Let us now join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. For the hour and the day and the time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without hatred — not without difference of opinion, but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations.” — Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), 36th President of the United States (1963-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1965
“How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.” — Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), 36th President of the United States (1963-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1965
“You know Americans are funny birds. They are always sticking their noses into somebody’s business which isn’t any of theirs…The United States was created by the boys and girls who couldn’t get along at home. So-called Puritans who weren’t by any manner of means pure came to Mass. to try out their own witch-burning theories…Most every colony on the East Coast was founded for about the same reason by folks who couldn’t get along at home. But by all amalgamation we’ve made a very good country and a great nation with a reasonably good government. I want to maintain it and shall do all I can in spite of the hyphenates and crackpots. I’ve no more use for Polish-Americans, Irish-Americans, Swedish-Americans or any other sort of hyphenate than I have for Communist-Americans. They all have some other loyalty than the one they should have. Maybe the old melting pot will take care of it. I hope so.” — Harry Truman, personal diary entry, June 7, 1945
“I believe…that the richness of life is not measured by its length but by its breadth, its height and its depth.” — Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37th President of the United States (1969-1974)
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President of the United States (1961-1963)
