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Citizen-In-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents

by Leonard Benardo

Presidents after the White House

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    Publishers Weekly praised the book as a remarkably revealing history and commended its research and its treatmen...

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Presidents after the White House

Spanning George Washington to George W. Bush, *Citizen-In-Chief* examines the lives American presidents led after leaving office. Its historical scope centers on what followed the presidency: changes in public standing, efforts at rehabilitation, and the varied later courses of former presidents’ lives. That focus makes the book a study of presidential legacy beyond the years in power, bringing together figures from different periods of U.S. history under a shared question: how did their lives continue once the office was behind them?

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  • Readers interested in U.S. presidential history beyond the years in office
  • Those seeking historical accounts of former presidents across multiple eras

Themes

Presidential legaciesLife after political officePublic rehabilitationU.S. history

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Book overview

"[A] remarkably revealing history....This well-researched, opinionated account does a fine job of filling a surprisingly empty historical niche."
--Publishers Weekly

 

 

Citizen-in-Chief, The Second Lives of the American Presidents, is a smartly researched, surprising, often witty, and always revealing look at former presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. Authors Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss offer readers entertaining true stories of the radical turns, provocative rehabilitations, and tragic trajectories of presidential lives after the White House. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen calls Citizen-in-Chief, "an engrossing book, Benardo and Weiss tell a fascinating tale," and he properly states that where our nation's leaders went after leading is often "more interesting than the presidency itself."

 

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