Citizen-in-Chief

Despite their colossal achievements as founding fathers, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe all ended their lives impoverished and in debt. Ulysses S. Grant saved his family from a life of penury by finishing his bestselling memoirs on the very eve of his death. Having failed to address HIV-AIDS effectively as president, Bill Clinton directed groundbreaking efforts after leaving office to make life-saving AIDS drugs affordable. In "Citizen-in-Chief," Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss examine the dramatic, little-known, sometimes inspiring, and often heartrending post-presidential lives of former Oval Office occupants. From the high-profile humanitarianism of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to the quiet achievements of Rutherford B. Hayes and Herbert Hoover, "Citizen-in-Chief" reveals that the true stories of great leaders are rarely complete once they leave the White House.

Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss are Husband and Wife and the coauthors of Brooklyn by Name. Their writing has been published in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, and elsewhere. They live in Brooklyn, New York, with their son and daughter.