Book Review: The President's Club

The President's Club is a refreshingly different kind of read.  There are plenty of Presidential biographies.  This book is not about Presidential accomplishments.  It is not also about post-presidential accomplishments, such as the well know Clinton Global Initiative (CGI, as it is known).  Rather this book explores the relationships between current Presidents and e-Presidents.  i.e. how did ex-Presidents partner with current ones.  Very well written with fun and telling anecdotes.  As I read through this list of relationships, starting from Truman's Presidency through to Obama, I thought it would be fun to subjectively rate the relationships:

Best:  Hoover helping Truman get food supplies to 100 million starving Europeans after WWIi (wow!)

Second best:  Nixon helping Clinton deal with Yelstin.  This is a really cool story!

Worst:  Jimmy Carter annoying pretty much everybody

Delicious:  Johnson and Nixon trying to outfox each other

Most fun anecdote:  Reagan teaching Clinton how to Salute.

If one is interested in Presidential history, this is a new and refreshing angle on this well worn path.