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.
John W. Dean Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
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.
Das Ende der Demokratie
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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.
This New York Times bestseller is an insider's account of the fall of Richard Nixon and has remained an indispensable source into Nixon's presidency. BLIND AMBITION is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at thirty years of age, only to discover that when reaching the top he had touched the bottom. Most striking in this chronicle is its honesty. Dean spares no one, including himself. But, as TIME magazine noted, "Dean survived, despite the opposition of powerful foes...because he had no false story to protect and he had an amazing ability to recall the truth." "(Dean's) lawyer warned him before he testified, 'Don't waste their time telling them what a nice guy you are.' He has apparently taken this advice to heart." (New York Times Book Review)