PositiveNPR\"Reading Beschloss\'s well-crafted synopses, one is reminded how often major wars are started on a false pretext ... Beschloss provides both an institutional perspective on these wars and a personal account, giving readers a sense for the dynamics of war through presidential eyes ... While Presidents of War provides excellent coverage of the eight major war episodes, smaller military interventions are missing from this book ... A full understanding of presidents of war would require attention to these limited military interventions, as well as the eight major conflicts studied by Beschloss.\
