First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents By Gary Ginsberg

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In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents.Here are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them:Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed: They shared a bed for four years during which Speed saved his friend from a crippling depression. Two decades later the friends worked together to save the Union. Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson: When Truman wavered on whether to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, his lifelong friend and former business partner intervened at just the right moment with just the right words to steer the president’s decision. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley: Unassuming and overlooked during her lifetime, Daisy Suckley was in reality FDR’s most trusted, constant confidant, the respite for a lonely and overworked President navigating the Great Depression and World War IIJohn Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore: They met as young men in pre-war London and began a conversation over the meaning of leadership. A generation later the Cuban Missile Crisis would put their ideas to test as Ormsby-Gore became the president’s unofficial, but most valued foreign policy advisor.These and other friendships—including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan—populate this fresh and provocative exploration of a series of seminal presidential friendships.Publishing history teems with books by and about Presidents, First Ladies, First Pets, and even First Chefs. Now former Clinton aide Gary Ginsberg breaks new literary ground on Pennsylvania Avenue and provides fresh insights into the lives of the men who held the most powerful political office in the world by looking at the friends on whom they relied.First Friends is an engaging, serendipitous look into the lives of Commanders-in-Chief and how their presidencies were shaped by those they held most dear.

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Considering that the lives of American presidents are often looked at through a range of perspectives, it’s surprising that there isn’t more published information about the friendships of past chief executives. In this work however, author Gary Ginsberg seeks to rectify this literary absence by delving into the relationships between several presidents and their closest friends.In “First Friends”, Ginsberg focuses on nine presidents spanning from Thomas Jefferson to Bill Clinton and traces the scope of their relationships with a selection of close friends. The book also covers the burdens of leadership, temptations of power, and reliefs that only platonic friends can provide at times. Since presidential personalities have differed greatly, the contributions of presidential friends have varied as well. In some cases, presidential friends have had substantive influence and contributed to the success of an administration, as seen with David Ormsby-Gore’s vital assistance to John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. At other times though, presidential friends have been harmful, as seen through Bebe Rebozo’s interactions with Richard Nixon that fed into the illegalities of the Watergate Scandal. By looking at presidential friendships in general, Ginsberg truly brings out the more intimate sides of former Oval Office occupants while also educating readers about past personalities that stood behind power.While informative and detailed, the book has small issues in certain parts. For instance, the author criticizes Franklin Pierce for not selecting a new vice president after then-VP William King died in 1853 but ignores the fact that there was no mechanism for filling a vice presidential vacancy until 1967. The author also states that Woodrow Wilson graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and while it is true that Wilson attended the institution, he withdrew from it and did not receive a degree. Furthermore, Ginsberg refers to Richard Nixon as a senator-elect several times in January 1951 despite Nixon having been sworn into the senate during the first week of December 1950. Although these errors may be minor, it’s somewhat trivial that they’re in the book at all and perhaps the inclusion of footnotes could have helped remedy these occasional factual discrepancies. Despite these flaws though, the book is still educational and analyzes unique aspects of American history.Overall, “First Friends” is an insightful look into the presidency and those who have been in close proximity to it. Additionally, the book serves as a crucial reminder that even U.S. presidents are real people with emotional needs and that the course of history can be affected by the decisions of individuals, even little-known and unelected ones.

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