Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford
by Thomas M. DeFrank
List Price:
Our Price: $0.99
You Save: $24.96 (96%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Thomas M. DeFrankEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 0399154507
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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.
United States Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in United States Books
Carrying The Flag: The Story Of Private Charles Whilden, The Confederacy's Most Unlikely Heroby Gordon C. Rhea
Basic Books; Published: 2003-12-24; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaireby Carol Jenkins, Elizabeth Gardner Hines
One World/Ballantine; Published: 2005-01-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.03
Price in other shops:
Oswald's Tale: An American Mysteryby Norman Mailer
Random House Trade Paperbacks; Published: 2007-01-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.60
Price in other shops:
Renegade: The Making of a Presidentby Richard Wolffe
Broadway; Published: 2010-05-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.00
Price in other shops:
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of Americaby Ivan Doig
Mariner Books; Published: 1982-10-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.16
Price in other shops:
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reaganby Peggy Noonan
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2002-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.33
Price in other shops:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Penguin Classics)by Harriet Jacobs
Penguin Classics; Published: 2000-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
The Invention of Solitudeby Paul Auster
Penguin; Published: 1988-05-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.68
Price in other shops:
On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessieby Sarah L. Delany, Amy Hill Hearth
HarperOne; Published: 1998-01-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $21.99
The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'by Bill Zehme
Harper; Published: 1997-11-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.40
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetimeby John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Harper; Published: 2010-01-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.85
Price in other shops:
31 Days: Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon and A Government in Crisisby Barry Werth
Anchor; Published: 2007-02-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.75
Price in other shops:
White House Diaryby Jimmy Carter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Published: 2010-09-20; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.48
Price in other shops:
Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment With Historyby James Cannon
University of Michigan Press; Published: 1998-04-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.22
Price in other shops:
Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970sby Yanek Mieczkowski
The University Press of Kentucky; Published: 2005-04-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.41
Price in other shops:
Gerald R. Ford (The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977)by Douglas Brinkley
Times Books; Published: 2007-02-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.62
Price in other shops:
Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969by David Eisenhower
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2010-10-26; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.48
Price in other shops:
All The Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writingsby George H. W. Bush
Scribner; Published: 1999-10-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
Gerald R. Fordby Douglas Brinkley
Times Books; Published: 2007-02-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.70
Price in other shops:
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Fordby Gerald R. Ford
Harper & Row / Reader's Digest; Published: 1979-08-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $50.00