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"""A deeply researched and beautifully written book about how the presidential palate has helped shape America. I found it fascinating."" —Stanley Tucci Dinner with the President is a splendid and captivating book about the power of food in American politics. “Breaking bread” around the table creates a unique and powerful setting to bring conflicting people together and achieve positive outcomes."" —Jacques Pépin ""Mr. Prud’homme has come up with a slew of entertaining believe-it-or-not tidbits...Dinner With the President opens with an epigraph by Anthony Bourdain: “Nothing is more political than food.” Mr. Prud’homme’s fascinating book drives the point home."" —Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal ★ ""With much insight into human behavior, Prud’homme has confected an appealing, panoramic history of power dining for both foodies and students of politics and statecraft."" —Mark Knoblauch, Booklist; starred review ""An entertaining, well-researched, politically tinged gastronomic history."" —Kirkus Reviews"

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ALEX PRUD'HOMME is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the co-author of Julia Child's memoir, My Life in France, and has authored or co-authored The French Chef in America, The Ripple Effect, Hydrofracking, The Cell Game, and Forewarned.

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