In the President's Secret Service

page turner...

this gets 4 stars not because it's so superbly written, but because it is dishy about presidents and their wives and kids. it's like a people magazine of the white house...or at least part of it is. it does have this other agenda regarding spending cuts in the secret service and how someone could easily kill the president because the system kind of sucks. the dishy part is better. stylistically, it's journalism/ethnography, so the only real gems are direct quotes from agents, and they are gems for precisely that reason.

it's a quick read that reveals that on a personal level, president's are first and foremost people and what you think of their policies and platforms may not play out exactly as you would expect on a personal level.