John W. Dean ist bekannt für seine zentrale Rolle als White House Counsel während der Nixon-Administration, in deren Verlauf er tief in den Watergate-Skandal verwickelt wurde. Seine persönliche Perspektive bietet einen Einblick in die Funktionsweise politischer Macht und die nachfolgende Vertuschung, und beleuchtet damit einen entscheidenden Wendepunkt in der amerikanischen Geschichte. Als anerkannter Autor und Kommentator beschäftigt sich Dean nun mit der zeitgenössischen Politik und bietet scharfe Kritiken des Konservatismus, während er unabhängiges politisches Denken fördert.
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President Nixon's former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandalWarren G. Harding may be best known as America's worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous revelation of an extramarital affair.Raised in Marion, Ohio, Harding took hold of the small town's newspaper and turned it into a success. Showing a talent for local politics, he rose quickly to the U.S. Senate. His presidential campaign slogan, "America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy," gave voice to a public exhausted by the intense politics following World War I. Once elected, he pushed for legislation limiting the number of immigrants; set high tariffs to relieve the farm crisis after the war; persuaded Congress to adopt unified federal budget creation; and reduced income taxes and the national debt, before dying unexpectedly in 1923.In this wise and compelling biography, John W. Dean—no stranger to controversy himself—recovers the truths and explodes the myths surrounding our twenty-ninth president's tarnished legacy.
2004 ist Wahlkampfjahr in den USA. Im Fokus des Weltinteresses steht die innen- wie außenpolitische Bilanz der Bush-Administration.§§In seinem aufrüttelnden Buch warnt John Dean - Insider der Washingtoner politischen Szene - vor den Gefahren der paranoiden Geheimpolitik des Georg W. Bush und seiner Entourage, die die Grundlagen der amerikanischen Demokratie zu erschüttern droht.