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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxx, 746 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Nixon's secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to provide the definitive answer to the question: what did President Nixon know and when did he know it?"--Amazon.com.
4) Broken government: how Republican rule destroyed the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Former White House counsel John Dean has become one of the most trenchant and respected commentators on the current state of American politics. Here he takes the broadest and deepest view yet of the dysfunctional chaos and institutional damage that the Republican Party and its core conservatives have inflicted on the federal government. He assesses the state of all three branches of government, tracing their decline through the presidencies of Nixon,...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Barry Goldwater was a defining figure in mid-20th-century American public life, a firebrand politician associated with an optimistic brand of conservatism. In an era in which American conservatism has lost its way, his legacy is more important than ever. For over 50 years, in those moments when he was away from the political fray, Senator Goldwater kept a private journal, recording his reflections on a rich political and personal life. Here bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xv, 352 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Description
How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he acts against their interests? To fully understand, John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor with a unique area of expertise- authoritarianism. Together, using psychological diagnostic tools, as well as...
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