Description: Scheer offers an unparalleled insight into the presidential mind, analyzing each administration from Nixon through George W. Bush, offering insights that will surprise the reader.
Brief description: ROBERT SCHEER covered presidential politics for the Los Angeles Times for thirty years. He is the author of six books, including Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush; With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War; and America after Nixon: The Age of the Multinationals; and coauthor of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq. He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. Scheer is a nationally syndicated columnist, a contributing editor of the Nation, the former cohost of NPR-affiliate KCRW's Left, Right, and Center, and the current host of the KCRW podcast, Scheer Intelligence.
Review Quotes: Veteran journalist Robert Scheer's subtitle doesn't begin to suggest the wealth of history captured here . . . This is a fine testament to his career.-- "Chicago Reader"