All The Presidents’ Money: What The Finances of Our Leaders Can Teach Us About Wealth

We all have our opinions on how presidents have handled affairs of state, but how exactly did they handle their own financial affairs? In her delightful and chatty book, Megan offers plenty of anecdotes: how a president born wealthy died broke (Thomas Jefferson, whose last correspondence was about buying wine on credit), a president born poor died rich  Lyndon Johnson, who used his government connections to build a tiny Texas radio station bought by his wife for $17,500 in 1942 that  netted the family $105 million 30 years later after LBJ died, and a president addicted to get-rich-quick schemes (that would not be the one you might be thinking of but Ulysses S. Grant, who lost money "selling ice, developing farmland, and invested in a social club in San Francisco"). J.F.K. was wealthy but frugal, Lincoln died without a will, and the Clintons...well, let's just say they are comfortable thanks to post-presidential speeches and books.