Drawing on a multi-year national random sample of American religious values, practices, and behaviors, as well as extensive fieldwork including joining hunts for Bigfoot and spending the night in a haunted house, the authors provide an entertaining yet authoritative look at a growing segment of American religious culture

In this season, history buff Don Wildman takes viewers on a captivating, revealing and at times, shocking tour of America's past, revisiting its most crucial events by reexamining what has been left behind.

Features odd stories and interesting facts about America's leaders from George Washington to Barack Obama, including tidbits about Andrew Jackson being married to a bigamist and John Tyler fathering fifteen children.

"What's so weird about U.S. presidents? Plenty! Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a great wrestler? That Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket riding his horse--twice! Or that Benjamin Harrison was afraid of electricity? And let's not forget that President McKinley had a pet parrot that whistled 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' duets with him! In this new single-subject Weird But True book, you'll have a blast learning that there's a lot of substance--and...