by Will Schwalbe
Recommended by Anderson Cooper
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An Entertainment Weekly and BookPage Best Book of the YearDuring her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same timeand an informal book club of two was born. Th...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Writing, and Nonfiction.
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Anderson Cooper
American journalist (born 1967)
“Oh no, spelled writer's name wrong! Will Schwalbe. The End Of Your Life Book Club. Poignant, moving, inspiring book. I recommend it!”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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