The title is an insider nickname for the Central Intelligence Agency. The plot is loosely based on events leading up to the Watergate coverup, centered on Nixon administration attempts to cover up its own illegal activity and that of the CIA dating back to the Kennedy administration. Although all characters are fictional, most are based on real-life political figures, and journalists such as columnist Jack Anderson.
The title is an insider nickname for the Central Intelligence Agency. The plot is loosely based on events leading up to the Watergate coverup, centered on Nixon administration attempts to cover up its own illegal activity and that of the CIA dating back to the Kennedy administration. Although all characters are fictional, most are based on real-life political figures and journalists such as columnist Jack Anderson.
John Ehrlichman’s new novel is even more timely, revealing and important than The Company. In The Whole Truth he brilliantly explores the moral question that goes to the very heart of our political system: Can a President and his aides ever justify telling the people less than the whole truth? At the center of this explosive novel is a series of very recognizable situations: a coup in a South American country, engineered at the request of a big American corporation that has made a generous cash contribution to the President; a meeting on the White House yacht, during which the President and the Attorney General casually order the CIA into a deadly foreign operation; a scandal that erodes the President’s credibility and leads to a sensational investigation which destroys the career of the President’s closest advisor and almost leads to a constitutional crisis…
Een Chinees sprekende advocaat wordt door de regering-Nixon ingehuurd om de weg te effenen voor betere Chinees-Amerikaanse betrekkingen, en belandt in een aantal gevaarlijke situaties.
Provides the definitive, inside account of the Nixon presidency, describing the events, people, and especially, the fascinating personality of Richard Nixon and exploring the uses and abuses, the fascination and toll of power