A review by livruther
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider

informative slow-paced

4.0

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an arc!

i like that in the conclusion, the author acknowledges the role that the people in the presidents’ lives contributed to their mistakes. i wish he had done that during each sections. this book was very informative!! it did feel slow at some points, despite not being too long. also, i think its CRAZY to conflate john adams with buchanan, johnson, wilson, and nixon!!!! like, john adams seriously messed up, yes, but in my opinion, he is nowhere near as bad as those others. i dont mind that he included adams, but the fact that he made comparisons to adams in other sections didnt sit right with me. 

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