Former White House Counsel John Dean will speak on Monday June 9 at 7:30 PM at the main
branch of the Altadena Library, 600 East Mariposa St., Altadena.
This Friends of the Library sponsored program will begin after the
organization’s annual meeting which will start at 7 PM. Dean will
discuss his past experiences and his books, Broken Government, Conservatives
without Conscience, and Pure Goldwater, which
will be available for purchase and signing that evening.This event is free. For more information please call 626-798-0833 or check the library’s
website, http://www.altadenalibrary.org
John Wesley Dean is an author, columnist and commentator on contemporary politics. Most famously Dean served as White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973 and became the star witness of the Watergate prosecution. Currently in demand as a successful author, lecturer, and columnist, Dean frequently appears on MNSBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
In 2004, Dean published Worse than Watergate, a critical indictment of the George W. Bush administration. Worse than Watergate spent 10 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. Dean’s 2006 book, Conservatives without Conscience, links his work to that of Senator Barry Goldwater, whose classic political text, The Conscience of a Conservative, inspired Dean throughout his career. Released in summer 2006, Dean’s book attests that American conservatism after Goldwater has faltered and been replaced with a dangerous breed of authoritarianism. The book spent six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List.
Dean’s most recent works are Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, released September 2007 and Pure Goldwater, a biography of Senator Barry Goldwater, written with the Senator’s son Barry Goldwater Jr. and published April 2008.
