In the 1970s , he became the co-founder and chairman of The National Committee on the Presidency , a grassroots organization which called for the impeachment of Richard Nixon . His political activism led to his writing of political histories for the general public . '' Meeting at Potsdam '' ( 1975 ) , about the 1945 Potsdam Conference , was chosen as a main selection of the Literary Guild , and was adapted for film and television by David Susskind . He went on to write other books on summit diplomacy , international power sharing , and American history , including '' The End of Order : Versailles 1919 '' ( 1980 ) ; '' The Marshall Plan : The Launching of Pax Americana '' ( 1987 ) , and '' The Genius of the People '' ( 1987 ) , about the 1787 Constitutional Convention ; '' A Visit to Haldeman and Other States of Mind '' ( 1976 ) was called " part autobiographical meditation , part elegiac crank letter to the American Republic , part confession and part essay on democratic politics " by '' Time '' . Greil Marcus , in 2002 , claimed that it was one of the best books he had read about American patriotism . In 2017 , Dwight Garner in his '' New York Times '' " American Beauties " column , about " undersung American books of the past 75 years , " called the book " o ne of the finest and least-known books about Richard M. Nixon 's presidency and the shrinking American soul ... " '' Playing God : Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World '' ( 1993 ) was Mee 's final published work of history
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
Charles L. Mee