EXPLOSIVE
NEW BOOK FROM
INVESTIGATIVE
REPORTER AND NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLING AUTHOR RONALD KESSLER TO EXPOSE THE SECRET LIVES
OF
OUR NATION'S LEADERS
Since
publication of his New York Times bestselling book In the President’s
Secret Service in 2009, award-winning
investigative reporter Ronald Kessler
has continued to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret
Service, breaking the story that Secret Service agents who were to protect
President Obama hired prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia in April 2012 and
revealing that the Secret Service allowed a third uninvited guest to crash a
White House state dinner in January 2010.
Now, in his
highly anticipated new book, THE
FIRST FAMILY DETAIL: Secret Service Agents
Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, Kessler presents far bigger and
more consequential stories that will make headlines about our nation’s leaders
and the agency sworn to protect them. In
this eye-opening and uncensored book, Kessler widens his scope to include
presidential candidates and former presidents after they leave the White House.
In particular, he focuses on first ladies and their children and their relationships
with the presidents. Based on exclusive,
on-the-record interviews with former and current Secret Service agents, THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL will include
revelations about the first families and their feuds, foibles, idiosyncrasies
and character, and explore the special challenges agents assigned to their
protective details face.
Secret Service agents have a front-row seat to the
presidents’, vice presidents’, and presidential candidates’ private lives and
those of their wives and children. From seeing reckless
behavior that threatens the country’s safety, to overhearing First Lady
Michelle Obama’s admonitions to the president, to watching their own agency
take risks that could result in an assassination, Secret Service agents know a
hidden world that Ronald Kessler exposes in THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL.
"Presidents,
vice presidents and presidential candidates create an image of themselves that
is often the opposite of the truth,” Kessler says. “Secret Service agents see
what goes on behind the scenes and know the real story. Besides making for some
explosive reading, those stories provide clues to character that voters need to
consider, as opposed to politicians’ acting ability on TV or what they promise.
In the end, character may be the deciding factor in the success or failure of a
presidency.”
