JOHN DEAN Former White House Counsel in the Nixon Administration; Watergate whistle-blower Author of eight books, including Conservatives Without Conscience and Worse than Watergate

Presents his new book BROKEN GOVERNMENT: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches

John Dean has become one of the most trenchant and respected commentators on the current state of American politics and one of the most outspoken and perceptive critics of the administration of George W. Bush in his New York Times bestsellers Conservatives Without Conscience and Worse than Watergate.

In his latest anti-Republican polemic, ex-Nixon White House counsel and Watergate whistle-blower Dean moves from policy to process—how necessary government functions are corrupted and hobbled by Republican politicians and their ethos of authoritarianism, secrecy, partisanship, and dogmatic contempt for the public sphere. It’s a long indictment. The last Republican Congress, Dean contends, rubber-stamped Bush’s policies, shut Democrats out of the legislative process, neglected pressing issues, and made a shambles of government finances. Meanwhile, the Bush administration—the worst presidency ever—has sought to replace constitutional checks and balances with a unitary executive that brooks no congressional interference and undermines civil rights. All of this is enabled by the swelling ranks of fundamentalists on the federal bench and Supreme Court (some of whom, he insists, committed perjury to get confirmed).

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