The Gatekeepers How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Chris Whipple, Mark Bramhall

eAudio - 2017

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose choices have defined the course of our country—including a chapter on the chaos of the first Trump administration“Entertaining and engaging.”—The Wall Street Journal“Compelling and insightful.”—HuffPost“Carefully researched and eminently readable.”—Newsday Presidents have always depended on the advice of key confidants. But it wasn’t until the twentieth century that the White House chief of staff was codified and became the second most powerful job in government. Unelected and unconfirmed, the chief is the president’s closest adviser; when the president makes a life-and-death decision, often the chief of staff ...is the only other person in the room.Through extensive, intimate interviews with eighteen chiefs (including... more