As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the primary players in the Watergate scandal and ultimately became the government s key witness in the investigations that ended the Nixon presidency. After the scandal subsided, Dean rebuilt his career, first in business and then as a bestselling author and lecturer. But while the events were still fresh in his mind, he wrote this remarkable memoir about the operations of the Nixon White House and the crisis that led to the president s resignation.