Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency, (Hardcover)

from BruceCoulson

A look at how Presidents have managed the news, from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. A bit rushed at the end; after taking almost 400 pages to get to Nixon, Greenberg whizzes through the last 4 1/2 decades in less than 100 pages, leaving the impression that more modern Presidents haven't improve...

from nmele

Some reservations: almost a quarter of the book repackages the facts and theses of Doris Kearns Goodwin's "The Bully Pulpit" but leaves out any mention of President Taft, jumping from Roosevelt to Wilson. The subtitle is inaccurate, it is not an inside history of the presidency but a history of p...

from rivkat

The modern presidency through the lens of P.R. Given that Greenberg concludes that spin can't do much when the real facts are undeniable, the book feels incomplete, especially coming up on the election of 2016 where we seem to be in a post-fact world.