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On this book's cover, the White House glistens brightly in the sunlight behind a "For Sale" sign. Beneath, the first bold word fairly shouts the title: SOLD To the Highest Bidder!
Author Daniel Friedenberg doesn't think much of any of the presidents of the past half-century _ Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush. One by one, he dissects their ancestry, examines their careers, evaluates their performance in office. To one degree or another, he pronounces each of them wanting, if not downright unworthy. He considers each absorbed with his own aggrandizement and negligent of the public weal. Those who didn't already possess great wealth, the author regards as ...