When the Center Held: Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency

The Gerald Ford presidency is explored as never before by Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant—in this “essential reading to anyone seeking to understand the American presidency” (Dick Cheney).

In the wake of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it seemed the United States was coming apart. America had experienced a decade of horrifying assassinations; the unprecedented resignation of first a v...