Review
“. . . would well serve future White House administrations seeking practical advice on how best to organize their presidencies . . . an invaluable contribution to Political Science reference collections and reading lists.”—The Midwest Book Review, April 2003“For years presidency scholars have bemoaned the lack of institutional memory on which incoming presidential staffs can draw. No longer. The White House World is a virtual how-to manual for recruiting and organizing an effective presidential staff system. It distills the collective wisdom of White House aides who served in several of the most important presidential staff units during the period 1969-1999. As such no other book—with perhaps the exception of Neustadt’s collected transition memos—contains so much practical wisdom in on place; WHW is in effect one-stop shopping for those looking for practical advice regarding how best to organize the presidency. Future presidential staffs will ignore this book at their own peril; those who read it will undoubtedly benefit by a shortened learning curve.”--Matthew J. Dickinson, Middlebury College
(Matthew J. Dickinson, Middlebury College )
About the Author
MARTHA JOYNT KUMAR, Director of the White House Interview Program and its parent project, the White House 2001 Project, writes on White House communications operations and press relations. She is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Towson University.TERRY SULLIVAN, Associate Director of the White House Interview Program and the White House 2001 Project, has published widely on the subject of presidential bargaining. He is a member of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
