The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

David Greenberg…a lively history of the crisscrossing personal relationships among America's post-World War II presidents…The authors revel in describing behind-the-scenes and especially face-to-face encounters…
—The Washington Post




Publishers WeeklyIn this anecdote-rich book, Gibbs and Duffy, the deputy managing editor and executive editor of Time, respectively, maintain that the relationships among former presidents have been characterized by "cooperation, competition, and consolation." Perhaps the most interesting tie they discuss is their first: Faced with the great need for food relief in Europe in 1945, Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover (who had provided food relief to Europe in WWI) overcame their mutual distrust to rally non-isolationist Republicans around the Marshall Plan.