About the Author

John W. Dean has written books, articles and essays on law, government and politics for The New York Times, MSNBC.com, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, and many other publications.

Reviews

As a youthful counsel to President Richard Nixon, Dean took the lid off the Watergate scandal because he could not stomach the deception around him. His public testimony shook the Nixon administration to its roots and helped in large measure to bring about the President's resignation. After imprisonment, the author became a newsman and then a successful investment banker. But in the unfortunate Worse, what Dean (Blind Ambition) harps on most is the secrecy of the Bush administration, but this can easily be seen as an artifact, more apparent than real, involving personnel who are less concerned with getting their names in newspapers and faces on television than with advancing the President's agenda. Many of the threads he picks up are left hanging-the stories are not over, the events and situations are not resolved, the history is not exposed and written-and certainly no one can call this a historical work. Read by Robertson Dean, it will have some popularity in library collections that preach to the Democratic Party choir, but its long-term value will be slight.-Don Wismer, Cary Memorial Lib., Wayne, ME Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.