NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #25 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Tonight, I'm featuring some favorites about the institution of the US presidency—not presidents per se, but how the office and its trappings operates, who holds the power, and how that power is used....
1) David Greenberg's (@republicofspin) REPUBLIC OF SPIN bookshop.org/books/republic… and Craig Fehrman's (@craigfehrman) AUTHOR-IN-CHIEF are great ways to think about the ways that presidents interact and shape the American public and political debate: bookshop.org/books/author-i…
2) Two books on hidden institutions of the presidency: David Priess's (@DavidPriess) PRESIDENT'S BOOK OF SECRETS bookshop.org/books/the-pres… and INSIDE CAMP DAVID, by one of its former commanding officers: bookshop.org/books/inside-c…
3) THE PRESIDENT'S CLUB, about the world's most elite fraternity of presidents and former presidents, is hands-down the most interesting book on the presidency I've come across in years, by Nancy Gibbs (@nancygibbs) and Michael Duffy (@mrwduffy): bookshop.org/books/the-pres…
4) Kate Brower (@katebrower) has written a whole series of behind-the-scenes books on the presidency, the White House residence, First Ladies, and, most recently, the vice presidency in FIRST IN LINE: bookshop.org/books/first-in…
5) Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) traced the entire sweeping history of wartime presidencies in PRESIDENTS OF WAR. Plus, if you don't follow him on Twitter, he tweets out amazing, often topical historical photos all the time: bookshop.org/books/presiden…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books on the presidency? Or other major institutions? What are your favorite indie bookstores? Share! #avidreadersunite
