In a literary tour de force, Charles L. Mee Jr. interweaves images and impressions from his life with political reflections inspired by a meeting with former Nixon aide H. R. Haldeman. The meeting--to discuss the possibility of collaborating with Haldeman on a book about his White House experience--becomes the vehicle for Mee's probing of his own political perceptions.
Here, exposed to the scrutiny of an unsparing journalistic eye, are the...