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The Isolation of America's Presidents and the Crisis of Leadership
Paradigm Publishers
June 2013
On Sale: May 30, 2013
256 pages ISBN: 161205160X EAN: 9781612051604 Hardcover
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President Harry Truman famously called the White House the
great white jail. One can scarcely imagine an environment
outside the nation s penal system that is more isolating
than the Executive Mansion, a habitat almost guaranteed to
keep America s commander in chief far removed from everyday
life. In fact, isolation is emerging as one of the most
serious dilemmas facing the American presidency. In recent
years, West Wing insiders have come up with a name for this
syndrome. They call it the White House bubble. Life under
these conditions is a basic theme of this book, along with
ways out of it, including bus tours, pollsters, and an
attentive first family. 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. The bubble is real, intense, hard to pierce,
and hard to find your way out of, according to White House
Press Secretary Jay Carney in one of several interviews for
this book. Ken Walsh gets inside the bubble and punctures
the mythology surrounding the presidency.
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