PositiveThe Irish Times (IRE)Much of what this book recounts will be familiar to American politics obsessives (and who isn’t these days?), but the compendium is a reminder of the breakneck pace set by an impatient president touching 80 with an agenda as long as his elephantine memory for personal slights, and a corresponding urge for retribution against his enemies real and invented ... Haberman and Swan provide a bird’s-eye view of a unique presidency, with chaotic meetings that roamed from topic to topic, aspirants for high office judged by their appearance, and infighting within the governing circle.
