The "New York Times" bestseller?and the candid voice of an American president
In 1974, "Newsweek" correspondent Thomas M. DeFrank was interviewing Gerald Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet. He then extracted a promise not to publish it. ?Write it when I?m[...]
"Not since Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt twenty-nine years earlier had the American people known so little about a man who had stepped forward from obscurity to take the oath of office as President of the United States."
--from Chapter 4"Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Life" is a comp[...]
This is a study of one of the most popular yet most misunderstood presidents. Reaching beyond the image of Ford as "healer" of a war-torn and scandal-ridden nation, the author aims to extend and revise our understanding of Ford's struggles to restore credibility to the presidency in the wake of Wate[...]
The accidental president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a c[...]
The former director of the Federal Energy Administration chronicles his many adventures, including crossing the Arctic Sea in a sailboat. Original.[...]