The men who occupy the White House are an elite group. No one, including their wives, understands the pressures and pitfalls of the job better than their predecessors. The authors did an excellent job of drawing back the curtain and letting us peek inside the curious relationships that develop between the current president and those who served before. Bitter political enemies become lifelong friends as a result of their shared experiences in the Oval Office. My biggest complaint with the book was the liberal slant to it, but the authors were mostly fair with conservative presidents. The Presidents Club actually started with Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman and continues today. Loved the anecdotal stories about the Bush family nearly adopting Bill Clinton as their "brother from another mother". The old saying is true: Politics makes strange bedfellows.