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|title=American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush
|author=Nigel Hamilton
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=History
|summary=#A look at twelve consecutive American presidents in just enough detail. Highly recommended.
|rating=5
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The Premise premise is simple: take twelve men (and unfortunately they are all men, but that's not the author's fault) who have achieved high office and look at each of them. Firstly, take a look at the road to the high office, then how they performed once they reached their goal and finally a look at their private life. Suetonius did it first when he wrote ''The Twelve Caesars'' and now Nigel Hamilton has taken the same journey with ''American Caesars'', a remarkably in-depth look at twelve consecutive American presidents from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bush.
Some quick maths suggested that there would be about forty pages for each President and my initial thought was that the result could well be superficial and a regurgitation of already well-known facts and conclusions. I was wrong. President Kennedy was assassinated on the day that I had my college interview and since then I've had an obsession with modern American politics: post Eisenhower I'm reasonably well-versed but pre-Kennedy a little more flimsy. The book almost had to live up to the expectations of two readers.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
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|comment= I feel that the book is not to be recommended. I was taught that historians should be objective but this book displays pure left liberal bias. Churchill is dismissed as an alcoholic who didn't even research or draft his own books, Israel is condemned outright, even to the extent of being blamed for being attacked by the Arabs and every enemy of the West is excused as being provoked by our own so called unreasonable behaviour. Only for readers of the Guardian.
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