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Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clintonand How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush By: Robert Scheer

Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clintonand How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

By: Robert Scheer

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Akashic Books, May 2006

#512 in Social & Cultural Studies > Political Science > Government
#51 in Social & Cultural Studies > Political Science > Government > Elections

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"Robert Scheer is one of the best reporters of our time."--Joan Didion "If anyone has more succinctly stated and summarized the folly we call presidential campaigns, I am not aware of it . . . this book contains one anecdote after another that I delighted in learning . . . [Playing President] is the best summer read I have found . . . one I heartily recommend."--John Dean, best-selling author of Conservatives without Conscience "With these observations on a section of our history, Scheer joins that small group of journalist-historians that includes Richard Rovere, Murray Kempton, and Walter Lippman."--Gore Vidal, from the foreword to Playing President "Scheer is a hard-hitting interviewer . . . his lengthy profiles nicely tease out some compelling complexities in runing for and being president."--Los Angeles Times Robert Scheer's interviews with U.S. Presidents, and his profiles of them, have shaped journalism history. Scheer developed close journalistic relationships with Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush I. His reporting on them had a tangible impact on national debate -- such as the eminent 1976 Playboy interview in which Jimmy Carter, the then-presidential candidate, admitted to lusting in his heart; and the 1980 interview with the Los Angeles Times, during which Bush I confessed to Scheer his dream of a "winnable nuclear war." In Playing President, Robert Scheer offers an unparalleled insight into the presidential mind. Through both new writing and reprinted material, he analyzes each administration since Nixon, and including George W. Bush, offering insights that will surprise the reader -- particularly those with rigid preconceptions about the decision-making processes of our leaders. The volume includes Scheer's famous presidential interviews, along with previously unpublished interview transcripts and select previous writings.

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Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clintonand How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

By: Robert Scheer

Akashic Books, May 2006

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#51 in Social & Cultural Studies > Political Science > Government > Elections

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