PLAYING PRESIDENT : Up Close with Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton - Softcover

Robert Scheer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933354011 ISBN 13: 9781933354019

Publisher: AKASHIC BOOKS, 2006

Synopsis

Robert Scheer's interviews with US presidents, and his profiles of them, have shaped journalism history. Scheer developed close journalistic relationships with Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush senior. Here, Scheer offers an unparalleled insight into the presidential mind. Through both new writing and reprinted material, he analyses each American administration since Nixon and, including George W. Bush, offers surprising insights - particularly those with rigid preconceptions about the decision-making process of world leaders.

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Synopsis:

Award-winning columnist Scheer offers unique insider perspectives on every US president from Nixon to Bush, Jr. From Jimmy Carter's "lust in my heart" to George Bush, Sr.'s "winnable nuclear war", Scheer offers an unparalleled insight into the presidential mind. Robert Scheer's interviews with every US president over the past 40 years, and his profiles of them, have shaped journalistic 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 have lusted in his heart; and the 1980 interview with the LA Times, during which Bush I confessed to Scheer his dream of a "winnable nuclear war". Here Scheer offers an unparalleled insight into the presidential mind. Through both new writing and reprinted material, he analyses each US administration since Nixon and, including George W. Bush, offers insights that are surprising - particularly to those with rigid preconceptions about the decision-making processes of our leaders.

It includes Scheer's famous presidential interviews, along with previously unpublished interview transcripts and selected previous writings.

About the Author:

Robert Scheer is the author of six books and is currently a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. He is a nationally syndicated columnist based at the Los Angeles Times, a contributing editor at The Nation, and a host of NPR affiliate KCRW's Left, Right, and Center.

About this edition

• Publisher: AKASHIC BOOKS
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1933354011
• ISBN 13: 9781933354019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300