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First Edition (NAP, MIT Press= NAP). The inscription reads 'For Mrs. T. Wheeler, With great affection, Ted.' Ted Sorensen lived nearby where I live. You can see the red covers of the book in the photos. They are very clean. The silver lettering on the spine is nicely bright. The spine puffs out a tiny bit due to a tiny space between it and the textblock at the top edge. That tiny space is enough to create a thin vertical crease going down the center of the spine about three quarters of the way. The spine ends are in solid shape, the top one does have a small wrinkle. The cover edges and corners are in excellent shape. I don't see any rubbing. Seen from the perspective of looking at the middle page edge from the side you will see that the early pages (up to page 8) jut out a little bit relative to the rest of the pages. It is quite minor and also a bit of a mystery as to why because those pages are all very solidly, to my eye perfectly, bound. All the pages in the book appear to be very solidly bound, nicely tight throughout, as are the covers. The pages are mostly clean. The exceptions are: two small tan spots on the signed first front end paper, some light amber spotting off the top edge of the blank verso of the Section II page, and a small amber stain just off the middle edge of the facing page of text, not touching the print. I think that's it in regard to the text. There is some light amber foxing on the rear inside cover and rear side of the blank rear end paper. I didn't see any conspicuous creasing, no turned-down corners or placeholder creases. A couple of groups of pages have a very tiny nick at the top edge, no tears, also not conspicuous. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And the author's signed inscription is the only writing to be found anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It looks pretty clean.The wear is mainly limited to the two small losses, one off the front side of the spine and one off the rear side of the spine, or perhaps more accurate to say just adjacent to the top edge of the spine. The flaps are in very decent shape. They are clean. There appears to be a tiny tear off the front flap's top edge. There is also a very thin vertical scratch (top to bottom) on the rear flap. The jacket is not priced or clipped. I've always had it in a fitted protective cover. 'In Watchmen in the Night, Theodore Sorensen, lawyer and advisor to President John F. Kennedy, offers a comprehensive examination of Watergate and what Richard Nixon's reign and resignation mean to the American Presidency. Rejecting both the assertion that Nixon was a mere aberration and the assertion that Watergate was a culmination of what other Presidents had done, Sorenson sorts out what was new and different in Watergate, including some frank admissions about the Kennedy White House. The Presidency as seen from the inside is not as powerful as it looks from the outside, he writes, commenting on the limitations imposed by the bureaucracy, the press, the Congress, and the courts. Sorensen, while acknowledging a change in perspective since his White House days, still favors a strong Presidency and in fact believes it should be stronger on economic matters. Nevertheless, he feels too strongly about Vietnam and Watergate to defend the status quo, and insists on specific steps to implement 'accountability.' He deflates the mystique of the Presidency, urges reform in our selection of Presidents, and suggests specific clues for which to look in predicting presidential megalomania. His comparison of the Nixon and Kennedy staffs is particularly insightful. All of this is illustrated with examples of good and bad uses of presidential power. Watchmen in the Night gives the reader an extraordinary sense of how the White House is run and how it should be run.'.
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