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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

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14
Narrator
5
Release Date
April 17, 2012
Duration
22 hours 0 minutes
Summary
The 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.
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Profile Avatar Paulette T. Nov 2022

I am an ardent student of presidential history and I found this book totally fascinating! So much history and clarification. Although Nixon still bears the scars of his misdeeds, in particular the conspiracy to not end the Vietnam war before the 1968 election, his subsequent value as an elder foreign affairs statesman is remarkable. His relationship with Clinton is particularly touching. The author keeps the story eloquently evolving. I absolutely love this book!

Profile Avatar Carl L. May 2021

I enjoyed the Presidents Club a great deal

The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

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