Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence and New York Times bestseller First Women. She is a CNN contributor and has spent four years covering the Obama White House for Bloomberg News and is a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. She has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband, their two young children, and their wheaten terrier.
“An intimate, compulsively readable account of the dynamics that
have shaped—and sometimes destroyed—relations at the top of the
American political hierarchy.... [and] a valuable addition to
the literature of the modern presidency.” — Wall Street Journal
“The queen of inside-Washington storytelling has extended her
reign. With First in Line, Kate Andersen Brower finds yet another
one of the political world’s most intriguing untold stories and
delivers it to readers with the unparalleled reporting and
compelling, fast-moving prose that have made her one of the few
must-read authors of our time. Americans’ understanding of vice
presidents — how they’re chosen, how they’ve maneuvered for more
power and how they’ve increasingly shaped modern politics — will
never be the same.” — Jonathan Allen, co-author, Shattered: Inside
Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
“First in Line is a nonfiction book that reads as quickly as a
novel you can’t put down. As Kate Andersen Brower pulls back the
curtain on the relationships between Presidents and Vice
Presidents, readers will be delighted by a trove of stories,
secrets, and life lessons. Her interviews and research supplemented
my own experience in watching the importance of a strong, loyal,
and trusting relationship between the two highest officeholders in
the land.” — Dana Perino, Former White House Press Secretary
and author of And the Good News Is... Lessons and Advice from
the Bright Side
“Combining fascinating inside stories with astute political
insights, First in Line fills a long-missing hole in American
history. We learn here how men from Richard Nixon to Mike Pence
have played their sometimes essential, sometimes useless roles in
the prestigious but peculiar job of Vice President.” — Cokie
Roberts, author of Ladies of Liberty
“Kate Andersen Brower has a wonderful reporter’s eye for the
telling detail that makes history engaging and real. In First
in Line, she explores the fraught relationship between president
and vice-president up to the present day in a pithy, revealing, and
timely fashion. Her many fans from The Residence will not be
disappointed.” — Evan Thomas, author of Ike’s Bluff and Being
Nixon
“Crisp, engrossing.... Brower delivers what she did in her previous
books, a readable, insightful account of how the vice
presidency has evolved and the men could end up in the Oval Office
some day.” — USA Today
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