The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive FraternityThe New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief. The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of the Oval Office and yet are eternal rivals for history’s favor. Among their secrets: How Jack Kennedy tried to blame Ike for the Bay of Pigs. How Ike quietly helped Reagan win his first race in 1966. How Richard Nixon conspired with Lyndon Johnson to get elected and then betrayed him. How Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter turned a deep enmity into an alliance. The unspoken pact between a father and son named Bush. And the roots of the rivalry between Clinton and Barack Obama. Time magazine editors and presidential historians Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy offer a new and revealing lens on the American presidency, exploring the club as a hidden instrument of power that has changed the course of history. |
Contents
Our Exclusive Trade Union | |
Careful Courtship Bitter Breakup | |
The News Hounds Are Trying to Drive a Wedge Between Us | |
The Man Is a Congenital Liar | |
e Hazing | |
He Had No Idea of the Complexity of the Job | |
The Worse I Do the More Popular I Get | |
Mercy at All Costs | |
e Family Feud | |
ree Men and a Funeral | |
e Exile Returns | |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
e Missionary Goes Rogue | |
e Golden Age of the Club | |
Bill I Think You Have to Admit That You Lied | |
How About Coming in for a Drink? | |
Blood Brothers | |
The Country Is Far More Important Than Any of Us 9 I Need Your Counsel and I Love You | |
e California Boys | |
Youll Have My PromiseIll Speak No Evil | |
Two Scorpions in a Bottle | |
This Is Treason | |
I Want to Go God Take Me | |
Brotherhood and Blackmail | |
I Want the BreakIn | |
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