Edition |
First Free Press hardcover edition. |
Description |
xvii, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The long, national nightmare -- "Give me hell" -- The pardon -- Public enemy number one -- Choosing Rockefeller -- Morning coats and wolf furs: Ford abroad -- Neither confirm nor deny: the Glomar Explorer and the crisis in the CIA -- The Reagan shadow -- The fall of Vietnam -- Ford at the helm: The S.S. Mayaguez Crisis -- Commander in Chief -- Assassins' target -- The (so-called) Halloween massacre -- Rumble from the right -- Last campaign. |
Summary |
"A revealing political memoir of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld--the New York Times bestselling author, and Ford's former Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant" -- Provided by pubilsher. |
Subject |
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006.
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Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021.
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Subject(S) |
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977.
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Biographies.
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ISBN |
9781501172939 (hardcover) |
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150117293X (hardcover) |
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