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Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
by Bob Woodward
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- 0684852624
- ISBN 13
- 9780684852621
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New York: Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. June 18, 1999. First edition / full number line. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 592 pages.
After Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, President Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." But it was not. The Watergate scandal and the remedies against future abuses of power had an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered.
After Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, President Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." But it was not. The Watergate scandal and the remedies against future abuses of power had an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Shadow
- Author
- Bob Woodward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684852624
- ISBN 13
- 9780684852621
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 18, 1999
- Keywords
- politics, government, history, presidents, presidency, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government; History;
- Size
- 8vo
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