Counsel to the President (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Clark Clifford, Richard Holbrooke
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1906-the 1990’s
- Setting: Primarily St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Clark Clifford, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, History
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Politics, World War II, Lawyers, Card games, Idealism, Cuba or Cubans, Presidents, Israel or Israelis, Banks, bankers, or banking, Soviet Union or Soviets, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Diplomacy or diplomats
- Locales: St. Louis, MO, Washington, D.C.
Clark Clifford made himself a legend. Coming to Washington at the end of World War II, Clifford became a trusted adviser to a succession of Democratic presidents and built a law firm that prospered on the strength of his influence. Clifford became the consummate Washington insider, the very model of a Beltway sage. Counsel to the President: A Memoir, written with Richard Holbrooke, was apparently intended to formalize Clifford’s conception of himself as a wise statesman. Unfortunately for Clifford, the publication of his autobiography coincided with the Bank of Credit and...
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