John Dean's dramatic account of his years in the White House is the most brutally honest memoir in American political history. Making no attempt to prettify the sordidness of the Nixon Administration or his own initial enthusiastic contribution to it, Dean takes us down corridors where no other writer has been able to lead us. BLIND AMBITION is both grave and irreverent; it is immediate and concrete, fascinating and frightening.

(Key Words: Memoir, politics, political science, government, Nixon, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, Watergate, Autobiography, Expose).