Blind Ambition: The White House Years

Hardcover Cloth 415 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Presumed First edition 1976 later printing. Lovely tan boards and white embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear, a few small stains to edges. Edges and pages have the usual yellowing. Scribner stamp on bottom edge. An unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles, stains and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the primary players in the Watergate scandal—and ultimately became the government's key witness in the investigations that ended the Nixon presidency. After the scandal subsided, Dean rebuilt his career, first in business and then as a bestselling author and lecturer. But while the events were still fresh in his mind, he wrote this remarkable memoir about the operations of the Nixon White House and the crisis that led to the president's resignation.

Blind Ambition offers an insider's view of the deceptions and machinations that brought down an administration and changed the American people's view of politics and power. It also contains Dean's own unsparing reflections on the personal demons that drove him to participate in the sordid affair.

Today, Dean is a respected and outspoken advocate for transparency and ethics in government.