The Ends of Power

London England: Book Club Associates. Hardback. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. Bob Haldeman was Richjsrd 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 yo 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. This book goes far behind any other book so far published on the Nixon era, not only by virtue of what Haldeman knows, nut of what he is prepared to tell. Indeed, no memoir of a Cabinet Minister or a Ppresidential Adviser has ever gone or may ever go so far. Across Haldeman's desk flowed the secrets of government. 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 exraordinary personalities. Haldeman describes them also, blunty 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 points in world history. Haldeman tells the inside story of the great decisions. This book 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. Illustrated. 326 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. 1st Book Club Associates. 1978.