The Acting President Author:Bob Schieffer, Gary Paul Gates Never before have the men around a President played such a powerful role in shaping and controlling the nation's foreign and domestic policy than during the Reagan years. In this explosive book, Schieffer and Gates, working with an extensive network of sources and some hitherto secret materials, reveal just who these men were and how t... more »hey influenced both the President and the country.
You will read the 1980 memorandum dividing up the real power of the presidency between Edwin Meease and James Baker...you will witness an astonishing Oval Office session on the defense budget immiately after Gramm-Rudman was passed...And you will get to know, in intimate detail, not only Deaver and Baker but such men as Donald Regan, William Casey, Alexander Haig, and John Poindexter. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, two great reporters provide a riveting look at what really happened during the Reagan years. It will change your vision of the decade.« less