Prisoners of the White House: The Isolation of America's Presidents and the Crisis of Leadership

ISBN-13: 9781612051611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str.

Opis

Looks at the isolation experienced by presidents of the United States in the White House.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Four who Lost the People; chapterOne From Outreach to Isolation, Lyndon B. Johnson; chapterTwo In the Bunker, Richard Nixon; chapterThree Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes, Jimmy Carter; chapterFour Missing the Obvious, George H.W. Bush; Part II Two Defiant Princes; chapterFive Strange Bedfellows, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush; Part III Five Who Stayed Connected; chapterSix Reading the Nation’s Pulse with Eleanor, Franklin D. Roosevelt; chapterSeven Connected to Everyman, Harry Truman; chapterEight Middle-Class Roots, Ronald Reagan; chapterNine Escapes from Disaster, Bill Clinton; chapterTen Beyond the Beltway, Barack Obama; Part IV From Wizards to Chicken Peddlers; chapterEleven The Wizards of the White House; chapterTwelve Breaking out of the Bubble;

O autorze

Authored by Walsh, Kenneth T.