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The Wars of Watergate

✍ Scribed by Kutler, Stanley I

Book ID
108647546
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
6 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307834058

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✦ Synopsis

This is the first truly comprehensive history of the political explosion that shook America in the 1970s, and whose aftereffects are still being felt in public life today. Drawing on contemporary documents, personal interviews, memoirs, and a vast quantity of new material, Stanley Kutler shows how President Nixon's obstruction of justice from the White House capped a pattern of abuse that marked his entire tenure in office. He makes clear how the drama of Watergate is rooted not only in the tumultuous events and social tensions of the 1960s but also in the personality and history of Richard Nixon.

Kutler examines Nixon's confrontations with the institutions he feared and resented--the Congress, the federal agencies, the news media, the Washington establishment--and how they mobilized to topple the President. He considers the arguments of Nixon's defenders, who insisted that Watergate was a minor affair, and the contention that the President did nothing worse than his...

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