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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Publication Date
- 2008-06-02
- ISBN
- 9780385508643
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385508646
ISBN-13
9780385508643
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60662902
Product Key Features
Book Title
Strong Man : John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
United States / 20th Century, General, Political
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
35.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-049430
Reviews
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR "THE STRONG MAN" "James Rosen has brought us a fascinating and provocative account of John Mitchell's life. Using fresh and unexpected sources," The Strong Man" dispels some of the mysteries that still linger around this central figure of the Nixon administration and Watergate. Rosen has achieved the difficult task of showing us heretofore unseen facets of the subculture that led to the greatest scandal in American history." --Michael Beschloss, author of" Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989" "James Rosen's" The Strong Man" is excellent. Few novels read as well as this first-rate blend of history and biography. Crammed with new information and steeped in deep research, political street smarts, fresh insights, and crisp, clear writing, it is a major contribution to the history of Watergate and the Nixon presidency." --Dan Rather, CBS News White House correspondent, 1969-1974 ""The Strong Man" is a fascinating work: a sympathetic portrait of John Mitchell, the Big Enchilada, Richard Nixon's campaign manager and attorney general, who went to prison rather than talk about Watergate--and then took his secrets to the grave." --Richard Reeves, author of" President Nixon: Alone in the White House" "Rosen has captured the players in Watergate as if he were on duty at the White House during the scandal. It is a tragic story that reads like a novel . . . The most accurate book on Watergate and the president's men--and the president--yet to be published." --Dwight L. Chapin, special assistant to President Nixon "For anyone who lived through Watergate or has studied it since, John Mitchell was always thedour, jowly, menacing embodiment of the nefarious Nixon administration. James Rosen's original and penetrating portrait of Richard Nixon's attorney general, the only alumnus of that office ever to land in prison, unveils the more complex figure lurking beneath the caricature. "The Strong Man" sheds important new light on a defining episode in American history." --David Margolick, author of "Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink" "This book is a veritable hologram. You feel that you are watching John Mitchell, The Strong Man, move and bend wills, whack and get whacked--"right here!--in real time!"--and at the end you will feel it neurally, in the solar plexus, when he" "pays the stiff price of D.C. Hold 'Em politics." --Tom Wolfe, author of "A Man in Full" and "I Am Charlotte Simmons", PRAISE FORTHE STRONG MAN "James Rosen has brought us a fascinating and provocative account of John Mitchell's life. Using fresh and unexpected sources,The Strong Mandispels some of the mysteries that still linger around this central figure of the Nixon administration and Watergate. Rosen has achieved the difficult task of showing us heretofore unseen facets of the subculture that led to the greatest scandal in American history." -Michael Beschloss, author ofPresidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 17891989 "James Rosen'sThe Strong Manis excellent. Few novels read as well as this first-rate blend of history and biography. Crammed with new information and steeped in deep research, political street smarts, fresh insights, and crisp, clear writing, it is a major contribution to the history of Watergate and the Nixon presidency." -Dan Rather, CBS News White House correspondent, 19691974 "The Strong Manis a fascinating work: a sympathetic portrait of John Mitchell, the Big Enchilada, Richard Nixon's campaign manager and attorney general, who went to prison rather than talk about Watergate-and then took his secrets to the grave." -Richard Reeves, author ofPresident Nixon: Alone in the White House "Rosen has captured the players in Watergate as if he were on duty at the White House during the scandal. It is a tragic story that reads like a novel . . . The most accurate book on Watergate and the president's men-and the president-yet to be published." -Dwight L. Chapin, special assistant to President Nixon "For anyone who lived through Watergate or has studied it since, John Mitchell was always the dour, jowly, menacing embodiment of the nefarious Nixon administration. James Rosen's original and penetrating portrait of Richard Nixon's attorney general, the only alumnus of that office ever to land in prison, unveils the more complex figure lurking beneath the caricature.The Strong Mansheds important new light on a defining episode in American history." -David Margolick, author ofBeyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink "This book is a veritable hologram. You feel that you are watching John Mitchell, The Strong Man, move and bend wills, whack and get whacked-right here!-in real time!-and at the end you will feel it neurally, in the solar plexus, when hepays the stiff price of D.C. Hold 'Em politics." -Tom Wolfe, author ofA Man in FullandI Am Charlotte Simmons "Relentless...engrossing...Displays wide-ranging and obsessive reporting, especially about the Watergate story...John Dean comes across as a duplicitous manipulator, Jeb Magruder as a spineless liar, Gordon Liddy as a maniacal soldier of misfortune." --Washington Post "Engrossing...unfailingly honest reportage...Rosen makes a convincing case that perjured testimony, especially from White House aides John Dean and Jeb Magruder, formed the basis of the case that made Mitchell the highest-ranking government official ever to serve time." -- Robert Novak,Weekly Standard "[A]s both detective and investigative reporter, Rosen cuts through conflicting accounts of Mitchell's life, tapping into previously unpublished documents...and presenting a thoroughly documented but vibrant portrait of a complicated and deeply flawed public figure." -- Jonathan Karl,Wall Street Journal "Superb...Rosen, a reporter for Fox News, has performed Herculean labors in unraveling Mitchell's career.., ADVANCE PRAISE FORTHE STRONG MAN "James Rosen has brought us a fascinating and provocative account of John Mitchell's life. Using fresh and unexpected sources,The Strong Mandispels some of the mysteries that still linger around this central figure of the Nixon administration and Watergate. Rosen has achieved the difficult task of showing us heretofore unseen facets of the subculture that led to the greatest scandal in American history." -Michael Beschloss, author ofPresidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 17891989 "James Rosen'sThe Strong Manis excellent. Few novels read as well as this first-rate blend of history and biography. Crammed with new information and steeped in deep research, political street smarts, fresh insights, and crisp, clear writing, it is a major contribution to the history of Watergate and the Nixon presidency." -Dan Rather, CBS News White House correspondent, 19691974 "The Strong Manis a fascinating work: a sympathetic portrait of John Mitchell, the Big Enchilada, Richard Nixon's campaign manager and attorney general, who went to prison rather than talk about Watergate-and then took his secrets to the grave." -Richard Reeves, author ofPresident Nixon: Alone in the White House "Rosen has captured the players in Watergate as if he were on duty at the White House during the scandal. It is a tragic story that reads like a novel . . . The most accurate book on Watergate and the president's men-and the president-yet to be published." -Dwight L. Chapin, special assistant to President Nixon "For anyone who lived through Watergate or has studied it since, John Mitchell was always the dour, jowly, menacing embodiment of the nefarious Nixon administration. James Rosen's original and penetrating portrait of Richard Nixon's attorney general, the only alumnus of that office ever to land in prison, unveils the more complex figure lurking beneath the caricature.The Strong Mansheds important new light on a defining episode in American history." -David Margolick, author ofBeyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink "This book is a veritable hologram. You feel that you are watching John Mitchell, The Strong Man, move and bend wills, whack and get whacked-right here!-in real time!-and at the end you will feel it neurally, in the solar plexus, when hepays the stiff price of D.C. Hold 'Em politics." -Tom Wolfe, author ofA Man in FullandI Am Charlotte Simmons
Dewey Edition
22
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Dewey Decimal
973.924092 B
Synopsis
As Nixons attorney general, John Mitchell had been at the center of the controversies of the 1960s. But it was the Watergate scandal that spelled his destruction. The Strong Man traces in unprecedented detail Mitchells rise to power and his spectacular public downfall., "The Strong Man" is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges. As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals of the late sixties. The most powerful man in the Nixon cabinet, a confident troubleshooter, Mitchell championed law and order against the bomb-throwers of the antiwar movement, desegregated the South's public schools, restored calm after the killings at Kent State, and steered the commander-in-chief through the Pentagon Papers and Joint Chiefs spying crises. After leaving office, Mitchell survived the ITT and Vesco scandals--but was ultimately destroyed by Watergate. With a novelist's skill, James Rosen traces Mitchell's early life and career from his Long Island boyhood to his mastery of Wall Street, where Mitchell's innovations in municipal finance made him a power broker to the Rockefellers and mayors and governors in all fifty states. After merging law firms with Richard Nixon, Mitchell brilliantly managed Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign and, at his urging, reluctantly agreed to serve as attorney general. With his steely demeanor and trademark pipe, Mitchell commanded awe throughout the government as Nixon's most trusted adviser, the only man in Washington who could say no to the president. Chronicling the collapse of the Nixon presidency, "The Strong Man" follows America's former top cop on his singular odyssey through the criminal justice system--a tortuous maze of camera crews, congressional hearings, special prosecutors, and federal trials. The path led, ultimately, to a prison cell in Montgomery, Alabama, where Mitchell was welcomed into federal custody by the same men he had appointed to office. Rosen also reveals the dark truth about Mitchell's marriage to the flamboyant and volatile Martha Mitchell: her slide into alcoholism and madness, their bitter divorce, and the toll it all took on their daughter, Marty. Based on 250 original interviews and hundreds of thousands of previously unpublished documents and tapes, "The Strong Man" resolves definitively the central mysteries of the Nixon era: the true purpose of the Watergate break-in, who ordered it, the hidden role played by the Central Intelligence Agency, and those behind the cover-up. A landmark of history and biography, "The Strong Man" is that rarest of books: both a model of scholarly research and savvy analysis and a masterful literary achievement., As Nixons attorney general, John Mitchell had been at the center of the controversies of the 1960s. But it was the Watergate scandal that spelled his destruction. "The Strong Man" traces in unprecedented detail Mitchells rise to power and his spectacular public downfall.
LC Classification Number
KF373.M5349R67 2008
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