I lived through the Watergate era, and watched the congressional hearings on my honeymoon. Dean’s thorough retailing of the background of Watergate is chilling. He documents his slow slide into participating in the coverup and his eventual redemption. Originally published two years after Nixon’s resignation, Blind Ambition is stunningly relevant in today’s political environment. Dean’s exposure of the criminality of the Nixon White House (and Nixon’s henchmen) is a warming for us to beware the crew staffing the Oval Office and EOB today. It’s time to read the other books Dean penned about Watergate and the politics of corruption.