Prisoners of the White House : The Isolation of America's Presidents and the Crisis of Leadership

Walsh, Kenneth T.

Routledge（2024/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781612051611
• DDC分類 973.099

Full Description

Prisoners of the White House looks at the isolation experienced by presidents of the United States in the White House, a habitat almost guaranteed to keep America's commander in chief far removed from everyday life. The authors look at how this is emerging as one of the most serious dilemmas facing the American presidency. As presidents have become more isolated, the role of the presidential pollster has grown. Ken Walsh has been given exclusive access to the polls and confidential memos received by presidents over the years, and has interviewed presidential pollsters directly to gain their unique perspective. Prisoners of the White House gets inside the bubble and punctures the mythology surrounding the presidency.

Contents

Introduction; Part I Four who Lost the People; chapterOne From Outreach to Isolation, Lyndon B. Johnson; chapterTwo In the Bunker, Richard Nixon; chapterThree Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes, Jimmy Carter; chapterFour Missing the Obvious, George H.W. Bush; Part II Two Defiant Princes; chapterFive Strange Bedfellows, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush; Part III Five Who Stayed Connected; chapterSix Reading the Nation's Pulse with Eleanor, Franklin D. Roosevelt; chapterSeven Connected to Everyman, Harry Truman; chapterEight Middle-Class Roots, Ronald Reagan; chapterNine Escapes from Disaster, Bill Clinton; chapterTen Beyond the Beltway, Barack Obama; Part IV From Wizards to Chicken Peddlers; chapterEleven The Wizards of the White House; chapterTwelve Breaking out of the Bubble;