Shall We Wake the President?

Praise for What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted (Regnery, 2013):

“This well-researched and highly readable book is rich in such material, and Mr. Troy is one of those rare creatures seldom sighted in the wilds of the academic-cultural-literary complex — an accomplished scholar who is also a first-rate writer.”--John R. Coyne Jr., The Washington Times

“The book is an entertaining refresher course on the personalities who have filled the White House. Think of it is as beach reading for nerds, more U.S. News & World Report than Us Weekly.”--Betsy Woodruff, National Review

“It’s a must-read for junkies and campaign operatives.”--Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post

“Troy's major contribution is his balanced assessment of how popular culture fundamentally transformed the political game in the last third of the 20th century.”--Robert W. Patterson, The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Everyone should read everything that Tevi Troy writes, so it goes without saying that his new book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted, is worth your while.”--Yuval Levin, NRO: The Corner

Praise for Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? by Tevi Troy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002):

“What’s perhaps most surprising about this book is that it took so long for someone to write it. . . . Now comes Tevi Troy to fill the void, and fill it he does.”--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“Tevi Troy's engaging Intellectuals and the American Presidency chronicles, among much else, FDR's 'brain trust,' the academic sycophants of Kennedy's Camelot, and the thinkers who gave George W. Bush his 'compassionate conservativism' [and] raises questions as old as political philosophy itself: Where should our leaders look for wisdom? Whom should they seek to please?”--The Wall Street Journal

“Intellectuals and the American Presidency” is a lively tale and well told, and certainly not meant for academics only.”--Roger Fontaine,The Washington Times

“Love them or hate them, intellectuals are players in American politics. Good politicians realize this, and act accordingly. Tevi Troy smartly chronicles the surprising successes and occasional humorous failures of presidents who courted America's elusive yet vocal intellectual establishment. This lively and readable study is must-reading for lovers of history and politics alike.”--Jack Valenti, chairman, Motion Picture Association of America

“In fact, intellectuals are so important to the American presidency that U.S. presidents “ignore the intellectuals at their peril.” This is the thesis of Tevi Troy’s important and absorbing book.”--Jason Bertsch, The Public Interest

“In this tightly-written book, Tevi Troy shows that the intellectual’s place in the White House is usually a subordinate one. Presidents use professors for their own purposes, not the other way around.”--John J. Pitney, Jr., Claremont Review of Books

The art of leadership emerges not during calm, but in crises—21st-century, premodern, episodic, multiple, sudden, simmering, solvable and existential—and never more so in the age of spreading nuclear weapons and instant communications. Tevi Troy’s fascinating new survey of how presidents dealt with disasters and near disasters is both historical and didactic: what has made a president in the past keep calm and yet forceful during an unforeseen challenge—and what can those in government and the public in their daily lives learn about dealing with catastrophes from our successful and not so successful Commanders-in Chief?

Shall We Wake the President? is an entertaining and informative tour of how presidents have responded to disasters, and what our country, including future presidents, should do when disaster strikes again. They should be prepared! Dr. Troy will convince you that farsighted preparation can make our nation stronger and our citizens safer.