To Serve the President: Continuity and Innovation in the White House Staff - Couverture rigide

Patterson Jr., Bradley H.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0815769547 ISBN 13 : 9780815769545

Editeur : Brookings Institution, 2008

Synopsis

Come hell or high water, the American people will elect a new president in November 2008, and the following January will see a changeover in presidential administrations. One of the first challenges facing the new chief executive, and one of the most consequential, is to put his or her stamp on the personnel and day-to-day operations of the 'new' White House. In this insightful and entertaining book, a veteran of several presidential administrations opens a window onto the closely guarded Oval Office turf. Nobody knows more about the duties, the difficulties, and the strategies of staffing and working in the White House than Brad Patterson.With two enormously successful books about 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue already under his belt, Patterson was granted unprecedented access to George W. Bush's key staff. In "To Serve the President", he parlays his experience and access into the most authoritative and readable account yet of the operations, offices, and most important, the people of the complete White House team. What is its organizational structure, and what impressive innovations recently have been made in White House staffing in the face of changing events? What exactly do these people do? And how do they figure into the larger picture of managing a nation? Unique in this new book is Patterson's newsmaking revelation of the total size and total cost of the contemporary White House - information that is simply not available anywhere else.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bradley H. Patterson Jr. has lived and worked in Washington for sixty-three years, fourteen of them on the White House staff under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. He is a former president of the American Society for Public Administration and is a senior fellow with the National Academy of Public Administration. Patterson is also the author of Ring of Power (Brookings, 1988) and The White House Staff: Inside theWest Wing and Beyond (Brookings, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brookings Institution
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815769547
• ISBN 13: 9780815769545
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 475
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible