John W. Dean was White House counsel to U.S. president Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Sensing he was being set up to become the Watergate scapegoat, he cooperated with investigators and implicated administration officials, including himself and the president. He pled guilty to the obstruction of justice and received a sentence later adjusted to time served cooperating with the Watergate special prosecutor and testifying in the trials of other conspirators. During his post-Watergate career as an investment banker, he authored two best-selling books about his experiences, Blind Ambition and Lost Honor. Since his retirement he has written several other political volumes.
The title of his most recent book, Conservatives Without Conscience, alludes to Barry Goldwater’s 1963 classic, The Conscience of a Conservative, which...
Donald Carveth is a professor of sociology and social and political thought at York University’s Glendon College. A training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, he is past editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychoanalyse. Many of his publications, including his recent essays on guilt and its evasion, are available on his website.
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