None of the Above

No stars are given on the cover of the book, however this program will not post a review without entering numbers of stars. The stars given above are an estimate based on the glowing descriptions of the book inside the cover by the Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, Publisher's Weekly, the New Republic, William Safire, and others. "In the past twenty years, not a single president has served two full terms. What has happened to the U.S Presidency? 'None of the Above' fully and frankly confronts our leadership crisis; shows how and why it occurred in terms of people, politics, and underlying problems involved; and offers provocative prescriptions for change. "In recounting the campaigns and tenures of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter and the first Reagan years, veteran political correspondent Robert Shogun depicts the individual qualities and glowing promises that won each man his election. He then pinponts with chilling accuracy the failure of each in turn to make good his pledges and achieve his goals. "What can be done? How can our system be changed so that government fulfills the desires of the people and the needs of the nation? Robert Shogan offers cogent analysis and crucial answers in a stunning work of political journalism that is at once a fascinating chronical of presidential politics, a reporter's inside view of the political process, and an important contributtion to the ciritical debate about the future of the presidency."