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The Presidents Club
Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
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- English
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About this book
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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INDEX
ABC News, 343, 404
Abrams, Creighton, 228, 235, 240–41
Abu Ghraib, 526
Acheson, Dean, 48, 67, 68, 69, 91, 97–98, 134, 178, 523–24
on Bay of Pigs invasion, 134
on Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Viet Nam, 188
on Hoover commission, 48
McCarthy’s desire for resignation of, 67
Adams, John, 3, 90
Adams, John Quincy, 5
Adams, Sherman, 84
Afghanistan War, 13, 468, 487
Africa, 29, 356
African Americans, 497
Agnew, Spiro, 218, 233, 234, 293, 297, 298, 377
Air Force, U.S., 422
Air Force One, 339–51
al-Assad, Hafez, 400, 407–8
Albert, Carl, 299, 300
Alexander the Great, 524
Alfalfa Club, 516
Algeria, 120
Allen, George, 95
Allen, Marty, 456
Allen, Richard, 217, 238, 243
al Qaeda, 468, 469, 470
Alsop, Joseph, 60, 173
Ambrose, Stephen, 98
Americans for Democratic Action, 187, 189
Americans with Disabilities Act, 515
“America’s Role in the Emerging World” (conference), 391–92
AmeriCorps, 464, 502
Amos ’n’ Andy (radio show), 203
Anderson, Clinton, 30–32, 36
Anderson, Jim, 347, 350
Anderson, John, 355
Anderson, Martin, 325
Anderson, Robert, 107, 125, 166, 167, 172
Anderson, Stan, 324, 325
Andreas, Dwayne, 288
Angola, 142
Apawamis Club, 206
Apple, Johnny, 430
Arab League, 406
Arafat, Yassir, 425, 436, 486
Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo, 131
Archer Daniels Midland, 288
Arden, Elizabeth, 97–98
Argentina, 36–37
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 443
Aristotle, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Truman and Hoover: The Return of the Exile
- Eisenhower and Truman: Careful Courtship, Bitter Breakup
- Kennedy and his Club: The Hazing
- Johnson and Eisenhower: Blood Brothers
- Nixon and Reagan: The California Boys
- Johnson and Nixon: Two Scorpions in a Bottle
- Nixon and Johnson: Brotherhood and Blackmail
- Nixon and Ford: Mercy at All Costs
- Ford and Reagan: The Family Feud
- Nixon, Ford, and Carter: Three Men and a Funeral
- Reagan and Nixon: The Exile Returns
- Bush and Nixon: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- Bush and Carter: The Missionary Goes Rogue
- Six Presidents: The Golden Age of the Club
- Bush and Clinton: The Rascal and the Rebel
- Bush and Bush: Father and Son
- Obama and his Club: The Learning Curve
- Conclusion
- Photographs
- Readers Group Guide
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright