John W. Dean, ehemaliger Berater des Weißen Hauses unter Präsident Richard Nixon, wurde zu einer zentralen Figur im Watergate-Skandal. Seine tiefe Verstrickung in die Ereignisse, die zum Einbruch und zur anschließenden Vertuschung führten, machte ihn zu einem wichtigen Belastungszeugen. Nach einem Schuldeingeständnis und entscheidenden Aussagen erhielt er eine reduzierte Haftstrafe. Dean ist heute als Autor, Kolumnist und politischer Kommentator tätig und übt scharfe Kritik am Konservatismus und der Republikanischen Partei.
The former counsel to President Nixon provides a critique of the Bush administration, its obsession with secrecy, and its willingness to deceive the American people.
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)