Fight house : rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump / Tevi Troy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troy, Tevi, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Staff--History.

Presidents.

Presidents--Professional relationships--United States--History.

History.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

Presidents--Staff.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Regnery History, an imprint of Regnery Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

"President Trump's White House is famously tumultuous. But as presidential historian and former White House staffer Tevi Troy reminds us, bitter rivalries inside the White House are nothing new. From the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, when the modern White House staff took shape, to Donald Trump, the White House has been filled with ambitious people playing for the highest stakes and bearing bitter grudges" -- Goodreads.com.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The White House Staff Emerges, and Conflicts Follow p. 1 / Truman and Ike

Chapter 2 Passion for Anonymity on the White House Staff? Not So Much. p. 17 / John F. Kennedy

Chapter 3 LBJ: Johnson's Kennedy Obsession Continues p. 41

Chapter 4 Kissinger-Rogers and the Dangerous Quest for White House Control p. 65 / Nixon

Chapter 5 Defined by Rivalry: Robert Hartmann versus Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney p. 87 / Gerald Ford

Chapter 6 Overlearning the Lessons of His Predecessors p. 107 / Jimmy Carter

Chapter 7 Rivalries Under Reagan: Baker versus Meese, and Regan versus Nancy p. 131

Chapter 8 Darman and Sununu versus All p. 157 / George H. W. Bush

Chapter 9 The Clinton Administration: Semi-Controlled Chaos p. 181

Chapter 10 Domestic Calm, National Security Turmoil p. 205 / George W. Bush

Chapter 11 Conflict in the Era of "No Drama Obama" p. 229 / Barack Obama.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1621578364

9781621578369

OCLC:

1125130359