Doherty, Brendan J.

While Doherty warns against the president's increasingly becoming a "divisive figure" with an eye always on the next election, general (rather than academic) readers will be better served by other books saying similar things, such as The Permanent Campaign and Its Future, edited by Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann, or Kathryn Dunn Tenpas's Presidents as Candidates. But any scholar looking for hard evidence to support what is a widespread suspicion will welcome Doherty's contribution.