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Playing president my close encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton : and how they did not prepare me for George W. Bush Paperback - 2006

by Robert Scheer

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.


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Robert Scheer's interviews with U.S. Presidents, and his profiles of them, have shaped journalism history. Scheer developed close journalistic relationships with Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush I. His reporting on them had a tangible impact on national debate — such as the eminent 1976 Playboy interview in which Jimmy Carter, the then-presidential candidate, admitted to lusting in his heart; and the 1980 interview with the Los Angeles Times, during which Bush I confessed to Scheer his dream of a "winnable nuclear war."In Playing President, Robert Scheer offers an unparalleled insight into the presidential mind. Through both new writing and reprinted material, he analyzes each administration since Nixon, and including George W. Bush, offering insights that will surprise the reader—particularly those with rigid preconceptions about the decision-making processes of our leaders.

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  • Title Playing president my close encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton : and how they did not prepare me for George W. Bush
  • Author Robert Scheer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 312
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Truthdig | Akashic Books, Los Angeles
  • Date 2006
  • ISBN 9781933354019
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005934821

About the author

Robert Scheer is the author of six books and is currently a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. He is a nationally syndicated columnist based at the Los Angeles Times, a contributing editor at The Nation, and a host of NPR affiliate KCRW's Left, Right, and Center.
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