By Chris Whipple
5 stars
A strong president requires a strong chief of staff and there is some consensus on what personality traits and experience makes for a most successful gatekeeper. This book covers President Nixon to President Obama and discusses every chief of staff and their relationship with the president and those around them. Immensely readable with fascinating anecdotes, I learned an impressive amount from this book about how politics operates behind the scenes. The author presented the information in a non-biased way and he gained a surprising amount of access to these high-powered men. I was really surprised by how entertaining this ended up being, and I read what could be very dense material in a matter of days. I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for an honest review.
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