From a former White House presidential events production director comes an illuminating journey through one of the most catastrophic scenes of political stagecraft since the “Age of Optics” in 1988.

The responsibility of being a public figure is no walk in the park-the world highlights politicians’ every mistake. “Picture collapse” can befall anyone whose carefully cultivated persona is usually analyzed by, and filtered through, intermediaries in the broadcast booths of cable news networks or behind the photo about Off Script: An Advance Man’s Guidebook to White Home Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Politics Suicide desks of newspapers, periodicals, and today’s host of digital systems.

As a person who orchestrates television- and photo-ready occasions involving essential political figures, Josh Ruler has unique encounter working with the reputations of open public numbers. In Off Script, Ruler leads listeners through an amusing behind-the-scenes journey through one of the most catastrophic scenes of political stagecraft because the dawn of the “Age group of Optics” in 1988. Listeners might recall these moments as simple instances of bad luck, but Ruler argues that these were actually symptomatic of something deeper in how we view our market leaders.

We tour nearly 30 years of history to create the stage for age Optics and turn to the Obama administration and what King phone calls the “Vanilla Presidency.” Ruler displays how Barack Obama started his term in workplace as even more guarded and even more protective of the presidential persona than anyone in history, and as we arrive at the election of 2016 and beyond, we have to question: Will our future president adhere to Obama’s example? If therefore, how will that impact the relationship between our nation’s residents and their innovator?