By Robert Schlesinger
I don’t know who runs “Political books,” but I think I love them. They call White House Ghosts “masterful” and have this to add:
In White House Ghosts, Robert Schlesinger has written a masterfully evenhanded rendering of behind-the-scenes life in the Oval Office that may be the best political book we’ve read this year. … It succeeds on several levels. It’s thoroughly researched, employing both secondary and primary sources, which include contemporaneous notes from both speechwriters and their bosses. It’s entertaining, with abundant you-had-to-be-there anecdotes. In spite of the wide range of presidential ideologies surveyed, one comes away at the end without sensing the author’s bias, although as he is the son of former JFK adviser and liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, one might hazard a guess.
Like I said, I dunno who these peoplre are … but I like ‘em.
