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All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

THIS IS THE BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward kept the tale of conspiracy and the trail of dirty tricks coming -- delivering the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon's scandalous downfall. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize... (more)

Personal History

by Katharine Graham

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history. It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington... (more)

The Final Days

by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

The Final Days is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon's fall from office -- one of the gravest crises... (more)

Shadow : Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

Shadow : Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

by Bob Woodward

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob... (more)

The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

by Bob Woodward

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of... (more)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

by Rick Perlstein

Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus... (more)

Blind Ambition

by John W. Dean

Born Again (Colson, Charles)

by Charles W. Colson

In 1974 Charles W. Colson pleaded guilty to Watergate-related offenses and, after a tumultuous investigation, served seven months in prison. In his search for meaning and purpose in the face of the Watergate scandal, Colson penned Born Again. This unforgettable memoir shows a man who, seeking fulfillment in success and power, found it, paradoxically, in national disgrace and prison. In the decades since its... (more)

The Ice Storm: A Novel

by James Schamus, Rick Moody

Winner of Best Screenplay Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In another family drama, after his internationally acclaimed Sense and Sensibility success, director Ang Lee takes his moving and comic sensibility to the American suburbs of the 1970s. 20 b/w photos.The Newmarket Shooting Script(tm) Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimile of the film's shooting script, as... (more)

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (New York Review Books Collections)

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (New York Review Books Collections)

by Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy was one of the leading literary figures of her time. Best remembered for her novels and memoirs, she was also a tireless literary and social critic. The intellectual brio and acute judgment that characterize her best fiction is vividly displayed in this rich selection of essays spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. Topics include everything from McCarthyism, Vietnam, and Watergate to Eugene O’Neill, J. D.... (more)

Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon

Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon

by Theodore H. White

The Nixon crisis of 1973-1974 threatened the nation in ways we did not immediately understand. Stripped of drama and confusion, however, the problem was that our President had placed himself above the law. The nation had to decide whether that could be allowed. Theodore H. White starts this story with the last days of Richard Nixon in the White House -- as those closest recognized that he had deceived them and... (more)

Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

by Robert Parry

Tracing investigative leads back through three decades, Secrecy & Privilege explores the mystery of how the two George Bushes rose to the pinnacle of American political power -- and what the rise of their dynasty has meant to the nation's democratic principles.

Lost Honor

by John W. Dean

Released from prison in January 1975, John Dean thought that the nightmare was over, that Watergate was behind him. He was wrong, because even as he tried to move away from the events of Watergate, he felt compelled to look deeper into the one remaining mystery of that era: the motives and identity of the man who had come to be known as "Deep Throat." The impact of Dean's ultimate conclusion goes far beyond... (more)

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today

by Barry Werth

In 31 Days , Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon’s resignation and the swearing-in of America’s “accidental president,” Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon’s increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within the White House and the Republican Party, Nixon’s resignation... (more)

In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time

In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time

by Leonard Garment

More than a quarter century after Bob Woodward introduced his Scotch-drinking, cigarette-smoking, garage-skulking friend and source in All the President's Men, the public remains enduringly engrossed by the mystery of Deep Throat's identity. Leonard Garment became fascinated himself and began his own search for Deep Throat. This is the story of that hunt and its successful outcome, a hunt conducted in... (more)

The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews

The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews

by James Reston

The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from the reach of prosecutors, Nixon returned to California, uncontrite and unconvicted, convinced that time... (more)

A Watergate Tape

by Roy Hoopes

An historical novel with a mystery plot for the anniversary of the Watergate break-inRoy Hoopess Our Man in Washington, an entertaining look at Washington, DC, in the early 1920s, got great reviews: An entertaining, hard-boiled novel about political corruption . . . history with a twist, said Playboy. Now Hoopes turns to the Nixon era.Its 1973, the year after the Watergate break-in, and everything that happens in... (more)

Integrity

by Egil Krogh

One of the "president's men" in the Watergate era recalls how he lost his way and destroyed his life under the pressure of politics and power, and provides lessons in what integrity--and success--really mean. In 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by John Ehrlichman, his mentor and key confidant of President Richard Nixon, in a secluded office in the Western White House. Krogh... (more)

Blind Ambition; The White House Years

by John W. Dean III

Blind Ambition: The White House Years by John Dean 1976 Hardcover

The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate

The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate

by James Rosen

The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges. As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals of the late sixties. The most powerful man in the Nixon cabinet, a confident troubleshooter, Mitchell championed... (more)

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