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When the center held : Gerald Ford and the rescue of the American presidency / Donald Rumsfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006.
- Ford, Gerald R.
- Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021.
- Rumsfeld, Donald.
- United States--Politics and government--1974-1977.
- Politics and government.
- Local Subjects:
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A revealing political memoir of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld--the New York Times bestselling author, and Ford's former Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant"-- Provided by pubilsher.
- Contents:
- The long, national nightmare
- "Give me hell"
- The pardon
- Public enemy number one
- Choosing Rockefeller
- Morning coats and wolf furs: Ford abroad
- Neither confirm nor deny: the Glomar and the crisis in the CIA
- The Reagan shadow
- The fall of Vietnam
- Ford at the helm: The S.S. Mayaguez Crisis
- Commander-in-Chief
- Near misses
- The (so-called) Halloween massacre
- Reagan on the right
- The last campaign.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932- author. When the center held
- ISBN:
- 9781501172939
- 150117293X
- OCLC:
- 1039312993
- Publisher Number:
- 40028216588
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