Attn: Presidential Candidates!“Read This Book!”Hey! It’s August and for my readers in the Northern Hemisphere, you’re wondering what book you should read on vacation this month. Here’s my top pick—plus two more books arriving soon:
#1. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: IN THE ROOM WITH REAGAN & NIXON, by Ken Khachigian (July 23, 2024).
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Libro (16 hours, 37 minutes).
This Thursday, August 8, 2024, is the 50th anniversary of the day that U.S. President Richard Nixon announced he would be resigning the presidency the next day.
That was 50 years ago—but Ken Khachigian’s hot-off-the-press page-turner reads like today’s headlines.Has anything really changed in our presidential campaigns? Debates over
if and
when to debate. “Weird” references. Pollsters and policy wonks. VP picks. Name-calling.
Full Disclosure! I’m just 100 pages into this fascinating book
(watch for my full review), but I can confidently recommend it because Joanne and I joined friends for a sneak peek on July 23 when author Ken Khachigian spoke at the Richard Nixon Foundation in Yorba Linda, Calif.
View the 56-minute video here:
In a talk on July 23, 2024, author Ken Khachigian revealed “inside info” about the preparation for the Frost/Nixon TV interviews which aired in four segments in 1977. Pictured (l. to r.) researcher Diane Sawyer, former president Richard Nixon, Khachigian (author), and presidential assistant Ray Price. Also shown: the briefing books for the interview. (View Khachigian’s talk here.) When President Nixon resigned, he found seclusion in San Clemente, Calif.—also our home for the last 30 years. He asked Khachigian, who had served on his White House staff, to join him in San Clemente and help write
his memoirs (all 1,136 pages!).
But there’s more! Khachigian also served as President Ronald Reagan’s chief speechwriter, “trusted political adviser and favorite scribe.” While you wait for my review and my notes from Khachigian’s talk, coming yet this month, read
Tevi Troy’s review of
Behind Closed Doors, featured in the July 26, 2024,
Wall Street Journal. And speaking of Tevi Troy…#2. THE POWER AND THE MONEY: THE EPIC CLASHES BETWEEN COMMANDERS IN CHIEF AND TITANS OF INDUSTRY (coming August 20, 2024), by Tevi Troy.
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Libro (12 hours, 8 minutes).
Read my review.
The author sent me his manuscript—and his insights are so, so timely! If you’re a longtime reader, you may recall I allocated two issues of
Your Weekly Staff Meeting to review Tevi Troy’s 2021 book,
Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump.
Click here for my “POTUS Pop Quiz.”
#3. FAITH FOR THE CURIOUS: HOW AN ERA OF SPIRITUAL OPENNESS SHAPES THE WAY WE LIVE AND HELP OTHERS FOLLOW JESUS (coming Sept. 24, 2024), by Mark Matlock (foreword by David Kinnaman).
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Libro (5 hours, 22 minutes).
Read my review.
Mark Matlock now serves as the executive director of the Urbana Student Missions Conference.
Read my review of the 2020 book he co-authored with David Kinnaman,
Faith for Exiles: 5 Ways for a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon. (Read my review of Matlock's new book,
Faith for the Curious.)
YOUR WEEKLY STAFF MEETING QUESTIONS:1) Ken Khachigian’s color commentary in
Behind Closed Doors spotlights memorable moments and one-liners in Reagan’s and Nixon’s presidential campaigns and White House years. (“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” was scripted by Khachigian.)
What’s the most memorable presidential speech you’ve heard or read? What’s your favorite line—and why? 2) The authors of
The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity note that Eisenhower’s people held rehearsals for Cabinet meetings. Kennedy was restless in long meetings; he hated them. (But after the Bay of Pigs debacle, he called Eisenhower for advice and changed his approach to meetings.)
So…when you inherit a new boss (or board chair), how do you get-up-to-speed on your new leader’s style (and idiosyncrasies)?
Mastering 100 Must-Read Books
Part 15: Feeble Faith and Flabby Worship
Book #86 of 100: Let Us PreyFor your team meeting this week, inspire a team member to lead your “10 Minutes for Lifelong Learning” session by featuring Book #86 in
Mastering 100 Must-Read Books.
Let Us Prey:
The Plague of Narcissist Pastors
and What We Can Do About It (Revised Edition)
by Darrell Puls
Books #82 through #86 spotlight five soul-strengthening books to connect you with the God of the Universe.
Hmmm. Had I read a book on narcissism earlier in my career, could I have avoided some big leadership mistakes relating to Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)?
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Read my review.
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NPD DEFINED. According to the diagnostic criteria of the American Psychological Association, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a “pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following…”
Read my review of
Let Us Prey. It includes three of the nine eye-popping statements about NPD.
And get this! “…deep inside the true narcissist sees himself as godlike and God as a terrifying rival.”
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