Michael K. Bohn, director of the White House Situation Room under President Ronald Reagan, is a feature writer for the Washington Post Magazine, McClatchy Newspapers, and the McClatchy Tribune News Service. The author of Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room and other books, he has appeared in documentaries on the History Channel and Discovery Channel. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
"A fascinating study of how presidents handle crises."Jonathan
Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News
"Want to know what happened in the White House during the Arab
Spring? Michael Bohn has the answer. In a rapid-fire, smoothly
flowing narrative, Presidents in Crisis draws succinct but
surprisingly comprehensive portraits of every president since World
War II, who each faced a succession of hair-raising emergencies.
Bohn's conclusions will be of interest to every concerned citizen,
and his reconstruction of various crises will remind us of how the
old days might not have been so good after all."
John Prados, author of Keepers of the Keys: A History of the
National Security Council
In Presidents in Crisis Michael Bohn takes us to the molten core
of presidential crisis management, revealing why the person on the
White Houseend of the famous 3 a.m. phone call can seem like the
loneliest person on earth.”
James Kitfield, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of the
Presidency and Congress
"A trenchant and fascinating account of how presidents have
navigated some of the key foreign policy crises of the post-WW II
era. Drawing from interviews with key actors in the crises as well
as original archival and secondary accounts, Bohn has woven
together what will stand as the most reliable and I believe
definitive account of the events the he describes and analyzes in
Presidents in Crisis.”
Mark Rozell, Acting Dean and Professor of Public Policy, School of
Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason
University
In riveting accounts of seventeen historic decisions, Michael Bohn
calls on his own experience as director of the Situation Room as
well as interviews with presidents and other White House staffers
to explain why national security crises are seldom as simple or
straightforward as they seem from the outside. Everyone, from
scholars to citizens, who wants to understand decision making at
the highest levels will enjoy reading Bohn’s insights and analyses
of presidential crisis management.”
James Pfiffner, University Professor, School of Policy, Government
& International Affairs, George Mason University
Michael Bohn compellingly argues that bold presidential actions
rarely resolve foreign policy crises in satisfactory ways. Bohn’s
book offers a persuasive counter-argument to political and pundit
demands for presidential military intervention, while also offering
valuable insights into the crisis decision making of Presidents
Truman through Obama.”
Denise M. Bostdorff, author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of
Foreign Crisis
Michael Bohn reminds us that every president since World War II
has had to deal with unanticipated crises and that the choices they
then face are never easy. His carefully researched book raises
doubts about the value of doctrines’ as guides for action, and
makes the reader more sympathetic with the cautious, incremental
approaches that presidents have often been criticized for
following.”
William B. Quandt, Professor of Politics, Emeritus, University of
Virginia
"A fascinating study of how presidents handle crises."Jonathan
Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News
"Want to know what happened in the White House during the Arab
Spring? Michael Bohn has the answer. In a rapid-fire, smoothly
flowing narrative, Presidents in Crisis draws succinct but
surprisingly comprehensive portraits of every president since World
War II, who each faced a succession of hair-raising emergencies.
Bohn's conclusions will be of interest to every concerned citizen,
and his reconstruction of various crises will remind us of how the
old days might not have been so good after all."
John Prados, author of Keepers of the Keys: A History of the
National Security Council
In Presidents in Crisis Michael Bohn takes us to the molten core
of presidential crisis management, revealing why the person on the
White Houseend of the famous 3 a.m. phone call can seem like the
loneliest person on earth.”
James Kitfield, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of the
Presidency and Congress
"A trenchant and fascinating account of how presidents have
navigated some of the key foreign policy crises of the post-WW II
era. Drawing from interviews with key actors in the crises as well
as original archival and secondary accounts, Bohn has woven
together what will stand as the most reliable and I believe
definitive account of the events the he describes and analyzes in
Presidents in Crisis.”
Mark Rozell, Acting Dean and Professor of Public Policy, School of
Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason
University
In riveting accounts of seventeen historic decisions, Michael Bohn
calls on his own experience as director of the Situation Room as
well as interviews with presidents and other White House staffers
to explain why national security crises are seldom as simple or
straightforward as they seem from the outside. Everyone, from
scholars to citizens, who wants to understand decision making at
the highest levels will enjoy reading Bohn’s insights and analyses
of presidential crisis management.”
James Pfiffner, University Professor, School of Policy, Government
& International Affairs, George Mason University
Michael Bohn compellingly argues that bold presidential actions
rarely resolve foreign policy crises in satisfactory ways. Bohn’s
book offers a persuasive counter-argument to political and pundit
demands for presidential military intervention, while also offering
valuable insights into the crisis decision making of Presidents
Truman through Obama.”
Denise M. Bostdorff, author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of
Foreign Crisis
Michael Bohn reminds us that every president since World War II
has had to deal with unanticipated crises and that the choices they
then face are never easy. His carefully researched book raises
doubts about the value of doctrines’ as guides for action, and
makes the reader more sympathetic with the cautious, incremental
approaches that presidents have often been criticized for
following.”
William B. Quandt, Professor of Politics, Emeritus, University of
Virginia
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