When the Center Held

“A personal look behind the scenes” ( Publishers Weekly ) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld— New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant. In the wake of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it seemed the United States was coming apart. America had experienced a decade of horrifying assassinations; the unprecedented resignation of first a vice president and then a president of th