Blind Ambition: The White House Years
by John Dean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671224387
- ISBN 13
- 9780671224387
- Seller
-
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656577
- Title
- Blind Ambition: The White House Years
- Author
- John Dean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671224387
- ISBN 13
- 9780671224387
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 415
- Size
- octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; First Editions;
Terms of Sale
River House Books
About the Seller
River House Books
About River House Books
I found hundreds of nice dust jackets with no books to cover. Need one for your library? Have a look at that category!
Have some dust jackets to sell? Drop me a line!
I ship domestically in the US using the Post Office and internationally using consolidation services. Books are always wrapped then packed in cardboard boxes with padding to protect the contents. International shipments are double boxed with shipping paperwork attached to the outside of the box using a special envelope. And a complete duplicate of all the paperwork packed inside the outer box in case the attached set wanders off.
Previous international shipments to Austria, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Spain, Sweden, UK --> Help me fill in my international bingo card!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
- Bindings & Editions First Editions
- History Western History United States History
- Social Sciences
- Politics, Government and Law Law
- Politics, Government and Law Politics
- Politics, Government and Law Political Science
- Politics, Government and Law Government American Government
- Politics, Government and Law Law Enforcement Political Biography Lenin Watergate
- Biography & Essays Biography & Memoirs