The Palace Guard by Dan Rather


The Palace Guard
Title : The Palace Guard
Author :
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ISBN : 006013514X
ISBN-10 : 9780060135140
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 336
Publication : First published January 1, 1974

Front cover is taped at spine edge and spine has creasing. Both covers have soil smugging and edge wear. Age discoloring names on inside front two pages. No other marks. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!

The Palace Guard Reviews

  • Jerry<span class=


    The Palace Guard is not about Watergate so much as it’s about the rise to power of the people behind the scandal.

    This is an amazing account of the rise of Nixon’s White House staff: Mitchell, Haldeman, and Erlichman. It’s also interesting seeing clear media bias, from one of the media’s then-leading lights, over thirty years after he wrote it, and eight years after his own self-made demise.

  • emily

    Difficult to read, if you (like me!) were born 10 years after Watergate broke. It's not (I don't think) that I'm unusually poorly versed in American history, but the book presupposes a certain familiarity with the major players that I just lacked. To that end, I think it felt more like *work* to me than it would have if I were reading this in, say, 1975.

  • Robert

    Actually, this book was so ungrammtical that I didn't get half through it.

  • Ron Fitzwater

    Two thumbs up!

  • Jarred Goodall

    I picked up this book out of my parents' garage, and enjoyed it. I have always respected the work of Dan Rather, whether it written or spoken. The title of the book proves fitting, as he covered all the key players, and their roles, in the Nixon White House. Nixon's choices of people, and their philosophies, ended up playing a key role in his downfall, for which, ironically, he almost got away with.