Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon recensie, review en informatie boek over de kracht van het Amerikaanse presidentiële pardon. Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Jeffrey Toobin de Amerikaanse journalist en legal commentator bij CNN. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de uitgave is niet verkrijgbaar.
Jeffrey Toobin The Pardon recensie, review en informatie
- “A splendid narrative about political power and mercy.” (David Grann)
The Pardon
The Politics of Presidential Mercy
- Auteur: Jeffrey Toobin (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van het boek over het Amerikaanse presidentiële pardon
The power of the presidential pardon has our national attention now more than ever before. In The Pardon, author and CNN legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin provides a timely and compelling narrative of the most controversial presidential pardon in American history—Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, revealing the profound implications for our current political landscape, and how it is already affecting the legacies of both Presidents Biden and Trump.
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.
Jeffrey Toobin was born on the 25 May 1960 in New York City. He is, the longtime CNN legal commentator, is the author of ten books, including The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, American Heiress, The Oath, Too Close to Call, and A Vast Conspiracy. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York.