Blind Ambition: The End of the Story by John W. Dean (PDF)

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In reissuing Blind Ambition, which spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been out of print for over two decades, author John Dean has added a powerful new Afterword, an extended essay in which he explains with the new clarity why (and how) a bungled, conspicuously amateurish burglary at the Democratic National Committee unraveled a presidency, forcing Richard Nixon from office; he also provides definitive answers to the most persistent questions that have lingered about these events; and alerts us all to the deceitful and growing efforts by Nixon apologists and those out to make a fast buck to rewrite this tragic chapter of American history by reinventing it. Just as with Blind Ambition, this new material is brutally honest and strikingly revealing. Dean s perceptive new Afterword, when read with this now classic autobiographical work, truly closes the case on Watergate.

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Opiniones editoriales Review Faust writes his own story. In the vast literature of those who came to Washington and lived to tell the tale there is nothing else like this. Blind Ambition is not only the best and most enduring book written from inside the Nixon White House, it is a classic of lost illusions. Now, in this new edition, John W. Dean, who has gained his understanding of the past through unsparing honesty, defends history itself from the charlatans and quacks who would distort it. –Sidney Blumenthal Journalist, political editor of The Daily Beast, and author of The Clinton Wars and The Permanent Campaign: Inside the World of Elite Political OperativesBlind Ambition uniquely takes the reader inside the Nixon White House, of particular interest as the Nixon administration crumbled under the impact of Watergate. Blind Ambition was a classic of its kind. Now Blind Ambition has been re-issued with an indispensable Afterword providing further valuable information. –Jeffery Hart, Professor Emeritus of English, Darthmouth College, longtime editor of the National ReviewJohn Dean’s Blind Ambition happily is available again – and with a brilliant Afterword that provides an up-to-date account of the Watergate affair, using new documentation. Dean’s memoir reminds us again of his crucial role in laying bare the sordid facts of Richard Nixon and all the President’s men. He offers a unique accounting of the events and his own role in them. Rare indeed is a memoir so utterly lacking in self-righteousness, false piety, and special pleading. It is a sobering reminder of the perils of ambition. –Stanley Kutler, historian & author of The Wars of Watergate and Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes From the Inside Flap “…John W. Dean, who has gained his understanding of the past through unsparing honesty, defends history itself from the charlatans and quacks who would distort it.” Sidney Blumenthal, journalist, political editor of The Daily Beast, & author of The Clinton Wars &The Permanent Campaign: Inside the World of Elite Political Operatives “John Dean’s “Blind Ambition” happily is available again – and with a brilliant Afterword that provides an up-to-date account of the Watergate affair, using new documentation …laying bare the sordid facts of Richard Nixon and all the President’s men. He offers a unique accounting of the events and his own role in them.” Stanley Kutler, historian and author of The Wars of Watergate & Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes About the Author John W. Dean served as the Counsel to the President under Richard Nixon. Over the years, he has become one of the nation s most respected political commentators and has written extensively on law, government and politics. Before becoming White House Counsel in July 1970 at age thirty-one, Dean was Chief Minority Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, the Associate Director of a law reform commission, and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as Nixon’s White House lawyer for a thousand days. The author of ten non-fictions works, Dean s most recent NY Times best selling books include, Worse Than Watergate, Conservatives Without Conscience and Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches. Leer más

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⭐This book gave me a much more thorough understanding of the Watergate event.John Dean has done a real service again in humanizing the dirty side of politics. These guys always appear as normal people, yet they diminish the character and relevance of those who do serve honorably.After reading his other works, I really ask what these conservatives think is so important that the rest of the country should pay any attention to anything said by these loose cannons. Let’s give them an abandoned reservation and let them live to their deregulated delights.A very well written and detailed account of the Watergate scandal from the inside. This book is a great complement to Woodward and Bernstein’s. The newly added material at the end is primarily about Dean’s defamation suit against Liddy and a Watergate conspiracy nut who accused Dean’s wife of being a prostitute.John Dean is such a brave man. i admire his courage. the book was AMAZING. Thank you John for writing it!Slaughterhouse is the best adjective to describe the inner workings of the Nixon Administration as portrayed in John Dean’s superlative account. I was a young man when the Watergate hearings were broadcast in 1973 and very much remember John Dean’s testimony before Congress. Sadly, it has taken me this long to actually read his book but I am much more mture at 59 than at 21. At that time I believed justice had been done; that the ‘system’ worked–I no longer believe this myth. While Richard Nixon was a somewhat unusual president, considering his odd quirky nature, and had a stellar cast of misfits as his chief operatives-Colson, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman-I do not think he was really out of the ordinary in his operational tactics. What Dean’s book does is illuminate the reality of American politics-then, and now; there is no essential difference.John F. Kennedy once wrote that he considered politics a noble and essential activity. I have long since abandoned this belief and baldly state that politics is strictly for either the naive or the self-serving–it is, in fact, ignoble and dishonest. It enriches the few and solves nothing. I cannot but help view all politicians as a lesser breed–ill-educated buffoons(legal training hardly qualifies as an education in the broad sense)who lack imagination and are ethically challenged. They are Untermenschen who deserve our contempt. They would better serve the public in a labor camp.I admire Dean for his honesty and as a amateur historian with a fascination for Richard Nixon I highly recommend his book. Consider it a manual of what NOT to pursue as a career. (This is a review of the Kindle version of this book.)John Dean was 31 years old when Richard Nixon appointed him White House Counsel. Blind Ambition is clearly one of a handful of the most incisive, insightful books to have arisen from the Watergate Crisis. It has been reissued with a wonderful addendum after decades of being out of print. It is beautifully written, strikingly transparent – a brutally self-revelatory vision from a key player inside Nixon’s White House.Dean was the first major participant in Watergate to go to the prosecutors and testify about Watergate. He was hero to a few, vilified by many. The book reveals a character of great depth, complexity and reflection. The book serves not only as a fascinating chronicle of Watergate (with appearances by all the big characters in the Watergate drama, including Mark Felt, Assistant FBI Director “Deep Throat”), but also an astute psychological profile of a complex system, highlighting drives to power, ambition, recognition, delving into agonies of pain, paranoia, and an ultimate restructuring of an ethical sense.Dean’s Blind Ambition transcends the Watergate genre. Most of the early treatments by the primary characters are staggeringly self-serving. Dean’s more subtle reflections increase the general applicability of the book.Simply put…this is the very best book detailing what watergate truly was, and also the best insiders point of view as things unfolded. I consider myself a huge watergate buff and have read books by just about every person involved, and again, this one tops them all. You won’t put the book down as it is literally one that has you on edge the whole time. John Dean provides a great first hand account on what watergate was, everyone’s roles in it(including his own), and why it happened. What’s also neat is him talking about W. Mark Felt aka “DeepThroat” just in normal terms, because Felt obviously hadn’t been identified as DeepThroat unti almost three decades after this book. A phenomenal book recommended to any watergate followers.

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