Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford
by Thomas M. DeFrank
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Author: Thomas M. DeFrankEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 0399154507
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Book Review: Very Interesting Book -- Very Annonying Narrator
Summary: 3 Stars
When it comes to a book about Jerry Ford written by a Newsweek writer, I figure there are two main characters and two points of view that I'm going to hear. Wrong. In this case, there are three because the narrator felt the need to make this piece of historical non-fiction a performance rather than a reading. In passages in the book where the focus should have been on the author or President Ford, the performer had this annoying way of performing the dialog or narration so that it took away from the story. I really do like audio books. I listen to them regularly. Some of them really do cater to the narrator performing the book. This one didn't. I presume that these things are directed. Well, the director and the narrator should try a different genre. Non-fiction needs a narrator, not a performer and the "performance" really took away from a very interesting book.
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Summary of Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford
In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Ford's death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny, reflective, gossipy, strikingly candid-and the stuff of headlines.In 1974, award-winning journalist and author Thomas DeFrank, then a young correspondent for Newsweek, was interviewing Vice President Gerald R. Ford when Ford blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet related to the White House, came around his desk, grabbed DeFrank's tie, and told the reporter he could not leave the room until he promised not to publish it. "Write it when I'm dead," he said-and that agreement formed the basis for their relationship for the next thirty-two years.
During that time, they talked frequently, but from 1991 to shortly before Ford's death in 2006, the interviews became something else-conversations between two men in which Ford talked in a way few presidents ever have. Here is the real Ford on his relationship with Richard Nixon (including the 1974 revelation that, in DeFrank's words, "will alter what history thinks it knows about the events that culminated in Ford's becoming president"); Ford's experiences on the Warren Commission; his complex relationships with Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter; his startling, never-before-disclosed discussions with Bill Clinton during the latter's impeachment process; his opinions about both Bush administrations, the Iraq war, and many contemporary political figures; and much more. Here also are unguarded personal musings: about key cultural events; his own life, history, and passions; his beloved wife, Betty; and the frustrations of aging.
In all, it is an unprecedented book: illuminating, entertaining, surprising, heartwarming, and, in many ways, historic.
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