Fight house : rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump

Author

Tevi Troy

Call Number

• 973.099 T864.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Washington, DC : Regnery History, an imprint of Regnery Publishing, [2020]

Physical Description

xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"President Trump's White House is famously tumultuous. But as presidential historian and former White House staffer Tevi Troy reminds us, bitter rivalries inside the White House are nothing new. From the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, when the modern White House staff took shape, to Donald Trump, the White House has been filled with ambitious people playing for the highest stakes and bearing bitter grudges" -- Goodreads.com.

Contents

• Introduction
• Truman and Ike: The White House staff emerges, and conflicts follow
• John F. Kennedy: passion for anonymity on the White House staff? not so much
• LBJ: Johnson's Kennedy obsession continues
• Nixon: Kissinger-Rogers and the dangerous quest for White House control
• Gerald Ford: defined by rivalry: Robert Hartmann versus Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney
• Jimmy Carter: overlearning the lessons of his predecessors
• Rivalries under Reagan: Baker versus Meese, and Regan versus Nancy
• George H. W. Bush: Darman and Sununu versus all
• The Clinton administration: semi-controlled chaos
• George W. Bush: domestic calm, national security turmoil
• Barack Obama: conflict in the era of "no drama Obama"
• Conclusion: the lessons of fighting at the highest level
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix one: the infighting scorecard
• Appendix two: White House nicknames
• Notes
• Index.