The ends of power 9780283984525

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Titel: The ends of power
Auteur: H.R. Haldeman
ISBN: 9780283984525
Conditie: Redelijk

Bob Haldeman was Richard Nixon's Number Two, the Chief of Staff at the White House. He is at present (March 1978) in jail serving a sentence for his part in Watergate.
He has decided to make public the inside story of his White House years: what really went on behind the closed doors in Washington. It is a story that he tells, to use his own words, 'with no holds barred'. His candour is devastating.
The Ends of Power goes far beyond any other book so far published on the Nixon era, not only by virtue of what Haldeman knows, but of what he is prepared to tell. Indeed, no memoir of a Cabinet Minister or a Presidential Adviser has ever gone or may ever go so far.
Across Haldeman's desk flowed the secrets of government. He was of the inner circle, witnessing day by day in the company of the President and his closest advisers all the crises and dramas, plots and in-fighting of the Administration. Moreover, he has access to and uses a whole body of White House tape recordings concerning himself, many of which have never been published before.
'Only one man, Bob Haldeman,' said Henry Kissinger, 'knows ninety per cent of what happened at Watergate.' The Ends of Power provides an account of the Watergate break-in and cover-up sensationally different from any other. And Haldeman's disclosure of what was on the famous I8V2 minutes of erased tape, why it was erased and who erased it, and on the identity of Deep Throat, made headlines before publication of this book.
Haldeman gives an uninhibited account of his former boss, Richard Nixon, of his character and achievements. Despite his bitterness, he praises as well as criticizes. Many of the men around Nixon were extraordinary personalities. Haldeman describes them also, bluntly and with a pleasing vein of ironic humour. Henry Kissinger is vividly portrayed.

For all its notoriety, the Nixon Administration will probably be seen to have been a major turning point in world history. Haldeman tells the inside story of the great decisions. He was, for instance, one of the few people in the world to be aware of the secret confrontations between Russia, China and America, and how, quite unknown to the world's peoples, they came to the brink of nuclear war.
The Ends of Power is a compellingly written memoir of the Nixon Administration by a man who witnessed the use and abuse of power at the highest level. In the final analysis this is a book about power, about super-power, throwing light on its inner workings like no other book yet published. It is an American story, but its appeal is universal.
The Ends of Power has been written in collaboration with Joseph DiMona, best-selling author of The Last Man at Arlington and The Benedict Arnold Connection.

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