Book 102 of my 2024 Reading Challenge
read from December 21 - 30
The Highest Calling
by David Rubenstein
My Opinion
4 stars
Information wise, this was a 5 star read. Reading wise, it's a very high 4. The style of interview transcriptions helped present the information as cleanly as possible without extra bias but the interjections of basic questions such as "what happened next?" was a little tiresome. The last few presidents where the interviews were more conversational were much easier to read.
I had already thought the audiobook version might be a better format because of the interviews but it was also noted in the acknowledgements that there are interviews included in audio that weren't in this book because of space constraints.
To note two glaring date typos, at the end of Truman's chapter it says he wanted to go to Herbert Hoover's funeral in 1984 (Hoover died in 1964) and at the end of Clinton's, it referenced Al Gore talking about using generic drugs to treat AIDS in other countries during the 2020 election (it was 2000).
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