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This book argues that the Roosevelts' rise to power and prestige was driven by intense personal contests that at times devolved into a blood sport because the family was at war with itself---torn apart by jealousy, one-up-manship, the strong devouring the weak, and dismissing the inconvenient (people as well as circumstances). The Oyster Bay Roosevelts (TR's clan) and the Hyde Park Roosevelts (FDR's family) would never fully heal the breach between their families.

In 2006, former Duke basketball captain Reggie Love applied for a job in the office of a then-unknown Senator Barack Obama. Soon after that he found himself on Obama's presidential team, staying one step behind the president, but always thinking and acting three steps ahead. He became President Obama's personal aide, sitting yeards from the Oval Office and spending more time with him than anyone else. Love learned the same lessons from his Duke Coach Krzyzewski and the president: persistence, responsibility, and passion for a cause greater than yourself. During his time with President Obama, Love learned how all of these things not only lead to success but to a broader concept of adulthood.

America's first families are among the most private public figures on earth. Each new administration brings a unique set of personalities to the White House---and a new set of challenges to the fiercely loyal and hardworking people who serve them : the White House residence staff. Stories that are fifty years old, through ten presidential administrations, tell about the good times the bad times, and all the times in-between in this book.

The 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland was the turning point of the Cold War. Initially planned as a short gathering to outline future talks, the meeting quickly turned to major international issues including SDI (Star Wars) and the possibility of eliminating all nuclear weapons. Both men were at the height of their powers and this move toward peace laid the groundwork for the most sweeping arms accord in history, adopted in 1987, and the end of the Soviet Union five years later. In one weekend the world was changed.

For the first time a member of John F. Kennedy's Secret Service Detail reveals the inside story of the president's assassination, the weeks and days that led to it, and the aftermath.