The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  € €œRon Kessler appears to get everything first.€€"Slate

As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation€s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. Crammed with new headline-making revelations, The First Family Detail by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler tells that eye-opening, uncensored story.

The First Family Detail reveals:

€ Vice President Joe Biden regularly orders the Secret Service to keep his military aide with the nuclear football a mile behind his motorcade, potentially leaving the country unable to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.
€ Secret Service agents discovered that former president Bill Clinton has a blond mistress€"code-named Energizer by agents€"who lives near the Clintons€ home in Chappaqua, New York.
€ The Secret Service covered up the fact that President Ronald Reagan€s White House staff overruled the agency to let unscreened spectators get close to Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton, allowing John W. Hinckley Jr. to shoot the president.
€ Because Hillary Clinton is so nasty to agents, being assigned to her protective detail is considered a form of punishment and the worst assignment in the Secret Service.

€œKessler€s such a skilled storyteller, you almost forget this is dead-serious nonfiction.€€"Newsweek