Blind Ambition, John W. Dean
Blind Ambition, John W. Dean
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Blind Ambition
The White House Years

Author: John W. Dean

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 14 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2016


Synopsis

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.

About John W. Dean

John W. Dean served as White House counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973. During the Watergate scandal, his Congressional testimony helped lead to Nixon's resignation. Dean has written about Watergate in his New York Times bestsellers Blind Ambition and The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It. Among his other books are the national bestsellers Worse Than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience. He is a regular political and legal commentator on CNN.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay

"there's a cancer on the presidency and if the cancer is not removed it will kill the president himself" This amazingly detailed account of the behind-the-doors activities of a corrupt presidency, now 40 years old, is still both shocking and relevant to today's world. Written by John Dean, the wh......more

Watergate memoirs are a dime-a-dozen; most of them are marginally readable exercises in self-exculpation, adding little or nothing to what was already revealed by reporters and investigators. John Dean's Blind Ambition is one of the best, as dubious a title as that might seem. Dean recounts his time......more