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In Broken Government, John Dean explains how he believes Republicans have transgressed or ignored traditional rules that have allowed our government to function, including the constitutional system of checks and balances between the executive, congressional, and legislative branches. George W. Bush’s White House has chosen to operate with secrecy and in defiance of its constitutional capacity while Republicans have overturned their traditional conservative ideology that favors less government in the interest of benefiting their own claims to power and their own interests and constituencies.

John Dean is the author of two previous bestselling books: Worse than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience. Formerly, Dean served as White House Counsel to President Nixon for nearly three years. He was also chief minority counsel to the House Judicial Committee, associate director of the National Commission on the Reform of Federal Criminal Law, and an Associate Deputy at the Office of the Attorney General. He is currently a columnist for Findlaw.com.

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