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Barcode30293102284424
LocationClark County
Call No342.73 Toob
TitleThe pardon : the politics of presidential mercy / Jeffrey Toobin.
AuthorToobin, Jeffrey, author.
CollectionNF
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Clark County30293102284424342.73 Toob3/18/2025 AvailableClark County

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International Standard Book Number 9781668084946 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1668084945 (hardcover)
Personal Name Toobin, Jeffrey, author.
Title Statement The pardon : the politics of presidential mercy / Jeffrey Toobin.
Edition Statement First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Physical Description x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-271) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Prologue: Daredevil Sunday -- Nixon's lost insurance -- The benign prerogative -- The VP's job -- "A total pardon" -- To charge le grand fromage -- Both sides of West Exec -- Expletive deleted -- Supreme stakes -- The vise closes -- Pardons and self-pardons -- The sixth option -- Party in interest -- The sun sets on Nixon -- Nightmare's end -- Ford settles in -- The collapsing floor -- A leak-free decision -- Delivering the pumpkin -- The prosecution caves -- From Nixon to Trump -- Showdown at Casa Pacifica -- The last cuff links -- "We have all played a part" -- The legacy of the pardon -- Ford's burden -- All roads lead to, and from, Willie Horton -- The atrophy and rebirth of the pardon power -- The first-term Trump pardons -- Epilogue: Time clarifies -- Author's note -- Notes -- Index.
Summary, Etc. In this deeply reported book, Toobin explores why the Founding Fathers gave the power of pardon to the President and recreates the behind-the-scenes political melodrama during the tumultuous period around Nixon's resignation. The story features a rich cast of characters, including Alexander Haig, Nixon's last chief of staff, who pushed for the pardon, and a young Justice Department lawyer named Antonin Scalia, who provided the legal justification. Ford's shocking decision to pardon Nixon was widely criticized at the time, yet it has since been reevaluated as a healing gesture for a divided country. But Toobin argues that Ford's pardon was an unwise gift to an undeserving recipient and an unsettling political precedent. The Pardon explores those that followed: Jimmy Carter's amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters, Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, and the extraordinary story of Trump's unprecedented pardons at the end of his first term. The Pardon is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the complex dynamics of power within the highest office in the nation, and the implications of presidential mercy.
Subject-Personal Name Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006.
Subject-Personal Name Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Pardon.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Executive power United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Pardon United States.
Index Term-Genre/Form Illustrated works.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works.

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