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Title: 31 Days
Subtitle: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today
Author: Barry Werth
Narrator: J. R. Horne
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-12-06
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
Ford had to reassure the nation and the world that he would attend to the pressing issues of the day, from resolving the legal questions surrounding Nixon's role in Watergate, to dealing with the wind down of the Vietnam War, the precarious state of detente with the Soviet Union, and the ongoing attempts to stabilize the Middle East. Within hours of Nixon's departure from Washington, Ford began the all-important task of forming an inner circle of trusted advisers.
In richly detailed scenes, Werth describes the often vicious sparring among two mutually distrustful staffs, Nixon's and Ford's vice presidential holdovers, and a transition team that included Donald Rumsfeld (then Nixon's ambassador to NATO) and Rumsfeld's former deputy, the 33-year-old coolly efficient Richard Cheney.
The first detailed account of the ruthless maneuvering and day-to-day politicking behind everything from the pardon of Nixon to why George H. W. Bush was passed over for the vice presidency, to the rise of a new cadre of Republican movers and shakers, 31 Days offers a compelling perspective on a fascinating but relatively unexamined period in American history and its impact on the present.
Critic Reviews:
"Barry Werth has written a crackling and instructive account." (Tom Brokaw)
"It's a story that has been told more than once, but rarely so well or in such depth as it is here." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Some mistakes took me out of it...
It's a good read, but it lost me early when the author mentioned Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President, and added the acronym 'CREEP'. It was actually the 'CRP.'
The author also mentioned a quote by Henry Kissinger, about Nixon's potential if only 'someone loved him.' Kissinger has stated that he didn't actually say that.
Mr. Werth got my money anyway, and I enjoyed most of it. I appreciate his effort to write about that strange period of history.
A Revisionist View of the Nixon Pardon
Barry Werth has done an excellent job in recounting an important story that has been misunderstood by historians. The negotiations between the Ford White House and the attorneys representing Richard Nixon make it clear that the ousted president in fact wanted to go to trial, and did not want to accept any pardon. This revelation alone makes this an important book. The narrative it presents runs counter to much conventional wisdom about Nixon's departure and the first days of the Ford administration. In particular the mysterious role of General Alexander Haig in preventing any trial of Nixon and sealing all Nixon tapes and papers for years to come. Werth's research raises questions about whether Haig may have had a self-serving hidden agenda in this regard. The book also provides insight about the arrival on the scene of Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, who, as part of the neo-conservative community, were to influence American foreign policy for decades to come.
A must read!
The book is about a great man who was thrust into the Office of the President of the United States of America at a very troublesome time in our nation. Upon him was the burden of carefully administering wisdom and resolute reslove to move the nation forward with a healing balm and to learn together, as a people, to forgive as necessary for the good of the nation.
