Word: dimona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haldeman's book is full of odd little passages like that; dramatic hyperbole, overstatement and stereotype in place of thoughtful description. Some of these excesses are funny. Others are full of poison, and they cause me to wonder about the relationship between Bob Haldeman and the writer, Joseph DiMona. Haldeman has seen my tennis serve, and he knows my character and personality; DiMona does not. Perhaps the wrong fellow picked the verbs...
...cowboy movie, it is never hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this book. Everyone mentioned wears an adjective, and wears it, and wears it, until it is worn out. Subtlety is not the problem with Mr. DiMona's style. Perhaps there was so little time to correct the proofs and get the books into the stores that Bob Haldeman just shrugged at these quirks of the writer's fancy and left them in. It was only after the book was set in type that Haldeman began making the necessary final corrections. By then, no doubt...
...this same preface, Joe DiMona is given thanks for his extensive research work supplementing Haldeman's personal recollections. In my view, the hypothetical Watergate charges and the research are the book's major weaknesses. There are material, factual errors which impeach its substance...
...DiMona: Look, Bob, we can't write a book about Watergate without telling the readers why those fellows burgled Larry O'Brien's office...
Last Thursday morning, when the Post's front-page summary of the book appeared, editors at Times Books, a New York Times Co. subsidiary that had paid H.R. Haldeman and Co-Author Joseph DiMona a $140,000 advance for the book, began rushing copies into major bookstores more than a week early. Angry editors at the New York Times Syndication Sales Corp., a subsidiary that had sold Ends serialization rights for a total of $1 million to more than 40 newspapers and magazines round the world, authorized those customers to rush into print four days before the official release...