Former White House counsel to President Nixon, John Dean emerged as a central figure in the Watergate scandal and is considered the chief whistleblower that brought down Nixon’s presidency. Dean has recounted this time in the Watergate memoirs Blind Ambition and Lost Honor. In 2001 he published The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that Redefined the Supreme Court, followed in 2004 by Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, which became a New York Times bestseller. In Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean examines specific right-wing-driven GOP policies and probes the contemporary conservative mind-set.