Seven Days In May Summary

The book I read was Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II. It is set in Cold War era America in the Pentagon. The tension between the public and the president are the main focus in this story. Most of the people this book talks about are in the military and work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff is presented as the antagonist in the book, whereas the protagonist is one of the people who works for him and catches word of a plan to stage a coup d’état. The Cold war plays a big part in this story because the planning of the coup was set off by the president wanting to sign a treaty with Russia to lay down their nuclear weapons. The main idea of this book was tension between the president