The President's Club Analysis
As American citizens, it is significantly important to understand the modern democracy and the relations among its leaders. In 2012, writers Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, published The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity, which serves as an essential key to the extending of awareness of American citizens. The President’s Club sheds light on the presidential brotherhood, or fraternity that has climaxed over six decades beginning with Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman in 1953. The book uniquely grasps the the relationships among these men with its intertwining of background information, descriptions of personal characteristics, and the including of each president’s differing ideas and how they clashed. Primarily, the authors sought to express that although as citizens, viewing history from textbooks books and other outside sources, there is and was a much deeper bond beyond competition in politics and in the executive branch of government. Each president has had his own intentions, qualifications, stories and lives. Yet, beyond their differences, they all share one characteristic, a brotherhood that only they know from serving America as “Mr.President.”As the book has described through the
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Truman and Hoover built a genuine friendship off of the foundation of a political devastation. Each had a particular goal in their interaction as former and present presidents. Yet, their experiences and doubts brought them together on a emotional level. As the introduction states there are three factors that determine the performance of the president’s club, “the needs and choices of the sitting president, the needs and talents of the former presidents, and a climate that welcomes and deplores their partnership. (pg.14)” The interaction between these two unlikely partners implemented each of these
Truman and Hoover built a genuine friendship off of the foundation of a political devastation. Each had a particular goal in their interaction as former and present presidents. Yet, their experiences and doubts brought them together on a emotional level. As the introduction states there are three factors that determine the performance of the president’s club, “the needs and choices of the sitting president, the needs and talents of the former presidents, and a climate that welcomes and deplores their partnership. (pg.14)” The interaction between these two unlikely partners implemented each of these