On August 9th, 1974, President Nixon resigns because of criminal activity in connection with Watergate and flies to California. At noon that day, Gerald R. Ford becomes the 38^th President of the United States.

In the ensuing 895 days, Ford's term in office, he would deal with South Vietnam, North Korea, the Helsinki Accord, Cuba, the operational transfer of the Panama Canal, the death of Franco, the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia, public outrage at CIA misdeeds, the U.S. Bicentennial, and Operation Paul Bunyan, a reassurance to South Koreans and a warning to North Koreans.

It is Mount's belief that developments which changed the world took place when President Ford led the United States. In some of these, he was an instigator; in some, he reacted to events precipitated by others.

Making extensive use of the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, both the archives and the museum, Mount examines the very documents produced by President Ford, members of his cabinet, and the White House staff and through that examination offers a window on the world between August 9^th, 1974 and January 20^th, 1977.

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Graeme S. Mount, PhD, has taught at Laurentian University since 1969. Author of thirteen books, including Chile and the Nazis (Black Rose, 2002) and The Diplomacy of War: The Case of Korea (Black Rose, 2004), he has written extensively on U.S./Canada relations. The most significant books in this field are An Introduction to Canadian-American Relations and Invisible and Inaudible in Washington, both co-authored with Edelgard E. Mahant.

Mark Gauthier, who holds an MA in history from Laurentian University, has also written about Canadian-Cuban relations in the era of Diefenbaker and Kennedy.

224 pages, 6x9, photographs, bibliography, index
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-274-3 $24.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-275-1 $53.99

History / Political Science & Government

October 2005

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