A review by socraticgadfly
The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs

5.0

Great book, just great. I hadn't realized just how complicated the LBJ-Nixon "dance" was after Nixon's election, including Nixon essentially trying blackmail Johnson over issues related to the Pentagon Papers and Nixon's quasi-treason in October 1968. Nor did I know just how relatively congenial Ford and Carter became with each other or just how much Clinton seemed to take on Nixon, Ford and Poppy Bush all as surrogate father figures of some sort.

No spoilers beyond that, nor will I say anything about older presidential dynamics (the book starts with Truman-Hoover).

It's a great read.