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"Crises pose a challenge to leaders as no other tests they confront. In this comprehensive and timely book, veteran journalist Kenneth T. Walsh offers a probing look at how presidents from FDR to Trump dealt with crises they faced. Including domestic as well as international issues and assaults, this book stands apart from other accounts of presidents in crisis. Walsh is in search of lessons we can learn, and his findings focus on the presidential attributes and skills that matter most in trying times. This expertly crafted, elegantly written book is appropriate for a variety of college courses and will find its way onto the reading lists of ambitious politicians and interested citizens alike"--

"Virtually unknown to the public or historians, White House photographers have developed amazing access to the presidents of the United States over the past half-century. In this book, long-time White House correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh tells their stories, emphasizing observations about the presidents the photographers got to know so well along with other key figures close to those presidents--including the first ladies, members of Congress, and important world leaders.This book shows how official White House photographers have morphed into ultimate insiders within the American presidency, allowed to observe and take pictures of nearly everything Chief Executives do related to their job. The "photogs" have often become close friends with the presidents they have served. Using these bonds of trust and their own powers of observation, they created fundamental impressions and public images of the presidents through the art of photography. Acting not only as image makers but as visual historians, they have built pictorial chronicles of the presidency--intimate narratives of America's leaders in public and private, showing how they dealt with everyday life as well as moments of great crisis and opportunity. From children playing in the Oval Office to decisions to send troops into harm's way, images created by White House photographers can make or break a presidential administration as well as define an era."--Provided by publisher.

ch. 1. The family of freedom and the arc of racial history -- ch. 2. The slave-owning presidents -- ch. 3. The emancipator -- ch. 4. Opportunity lost -- ch. 5. Jim Crow -- ch. 6. Stirrings of change -- ch. 7. A few shining moments -- ch. 8. Camelot in black and white -- ch. 9. The breakthrough -- ch. 10. Mixed results in a conservative era -- ch. 11. Three Southern presidents -- ch. 12. The first Black president -- ch. 13. Charisma and reality.

Analyzes the inherent celebrity that comes with being the United States president and explains how some presidents successfully capitalized on their fame to make themselves more effective leaders and others did not.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Trapped in "The Bubble" -- Part I Four Who Lost the People -- Chapter One Lyndon B. Johnson From Outreach to Isolation -- Chapter Two Richard Nixon In the Bunker -- Chapter Three Jimmy Carter Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes -- Chapter Four George H.W. Bush Missing the Obvious -- Part II Two Defiant Princes -- Chapter Five John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush Strange Bedfellows -- Part III Five Who Stayed Connected -- Chapter Six Franklin D. Roosevelt Reading the Nation's Pulse with Eleanor -- Chapter Seven Harry Truman Connected to Everyman -- Chapter Eight Ronald Reagan Middle-Class Roots -- Chapter Nine Bill Clinton Escapes from Disaster -- Chapter Ten Barack Obama Beyond the Beltway -- Part IV From Wizards to Chicken Peddlers -- Chapter Eleven The Wizards of the White House -- Chapter Twelve Breaking Out of the Bubble -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.