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Prisoners of the White House : the isolation of America's presidents and the crisis of leadership / by Kenneth T. Walsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walsh, Kenneth T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- Manners and customs.
- United States.
- Presidents--United States--Social life and customs.
- Political leadership--United States.
- Political leadership.
- White House (Washington, D.C.).
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2013]
- Contents:
- Trapped in "the bubble"
- Four who lost the people. Lyndon B Johnson : from outreach to isolation ; Richard Nixon : in the bunker ; Jimmy Carter : good intentions, bad outcomes ; George H.W. Bush : missing the obvious
- Two defiant princes. John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush : strange bedfellows
- Five who stayed connected. Franklin D. Roosevelt : reading the nation's pulse with Eleanor ; Harry Truman : connected to Everyman ; Ronald Reagan : middle-class roots ; Bill Clinton : escapes from disaster ; Barack Obama : beyond the Beltway
- From wizards to chicken peddlers. The wisards of the White House ; Breaking out of the bubble.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781612051604
- 161205160X
- OCLC:
- 841198083
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