About the Book: Where Power Stops
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack
Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different
motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought the highest office. And yet
when they reached their goal, they often found that the power they had imagined
was illusory. Their sweeping visions of reform faltered. They faced bureaucratic
obstructions, but often the biggest obstruction was their own character.
However, their personalities could help them as much as hurt them. Arguably the
most successful of them, LBJ showed little indication that he supported what he
is best known