A visit to Haldeman and other states of mind

the long version

In a literary <span style=""font-style:italic;"">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. <br /> Here, exposed to the scrutiny of an unsparing journalistic eye, are the deep feelings of loss and failure that the Nixon debacle en.