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Laddar... Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (2000)av Bob Woodward
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Interesting book by Washington Post reporter, Bob Woodward about the impact of the Nixon Watergate scandal on the five following presidents. The book throws into doubt the judgment of appointing Special Counsels to investigate the dealings of presidents and their staffs without clearly establishing the scope and time limits of the investigation in the enabling documents. (  ) MrDickie | Nov 11, 2017 |  VERY GOOD INSITE TO HOW EACH ONE WAS EFFECTED BY WATERGATE. WOODWARD SHOWS HOW THIS WAR CHANGED OUR GOVENMENT AS MUCH AS ANY SINCE WW II. HE CHANGES DIFFICULT THEMES TO SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING. ( ) MARTYSON | Jan 24, 2009 | We start the day after Watergate and follow each of the Presidents through their terms. The book shows how the media and public opinion of the Presidency has changed since Watergate. Also it shows the way each of the Presidents treat sensitive issues in the wake of Watergate. Scandals (or maybe just rough patches) affecting Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton are examined in great detail. Fascinating information on all except Clinton. I've read and heard so much about him it was all just repeat. I now see Ford, Reagan, and Carter in a very different light. Not a bad light, just different. They're human. (  )1  kkirkhoff | Jul 20, 2006 | Nixon-Clinton and the impact of Watergate. Well done. ( ) JBD1 | Jan 19, 2006 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have 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. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive. Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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