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The fall of Richard Nixon : a reporter remembers Watergate / by Brokaw, Tom,author.;
"The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Brokaw writes, 'Even now, almost half a century later, I am astonished by what the country went through, and I wanted to share press stories from the inside looking out -- what it was like to be on call 24/7, the twists and turns, the laughs and tensions during this historic time.'"--
Subjects: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974;
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The last of the President's men / by Woodward, Bob,1943-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Butterfield, Alexander Porter, 1926-; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Political corruption; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.;
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The Nixon tapes : 1971-1972 / by Brinkley, Douglas.; Nichter, Luke.;
"The famous--and infamous--Nixon White House tapes that reveal for the first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in his own words. President Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every word spoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations in the White House, and at Camp David--3,700 hours of recordings between 1971 and 1973. Yet less than 5 percent of those conversations have ever been transcribed and published. Now, thanks to professor Luke Nichter's massive effort to digitize and transcribe the tapes, the world can finally read an unprecedented account of one of the most important and controversial presidencies in U.S. history. The Nixon Tapes offers a selection of fascinating scenes from the year Nixon opened relations with China, negotiated the SALT I arms agreement with the Soviet Union, and won a landslide reelection victory. All the while, the growing shadow of Watergate and Nixon's political downfall crept ever closer. The Nixon Tapes provides a never-before-seen glimpse into a flawed president's hubris, paranoia, and political genius"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Audiotapes.; Presidents;
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Watergate : a new history / by Graff, Garrett M.,1981-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Watergate became a shorthand for corruption, deceit, and unanswered questions. Now, author Garrett M. Graff explores the full scope of this unprecedented moment from start to finish, in the first comprehensive, single-volume account in decades. --adapted from jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Political corruption; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.;
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Nixon in China : the week that changed the world / by MacMillan, Margaret,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index.Setting out -- Arrival -- Chou En-lai -- Diaoyutai -- Meeting with Mao -- Mao Tse-tung.
Subjects: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Visits of state; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Visites officielles; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Diplomatic relations.; Travel.; Visits of state.;
© ©2006., Viking Canada,
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Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House / by Maddow, Rachel,author.; Yarvitz, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later? The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon's second-in-command. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when-at the height of Watergate-three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon's impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. The self-described "counterpuncher" vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a "witch hunt," riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive. In this blockbuster account, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz detail the investigation that exposed Agnew's crimes, the attempts at a cover-up-which involved future president George H. W. Bush-and the backroom bargain that forced Agnew's resignation but also spared him years in federal prison. Based on the award-winning hit podcast, Bag Man expands and deepens the story of Spiro Agnew's scandal and its lasting influence on our politics, our media, and our understanding of what it takes to confront a criminal in the White House."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-1996.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Political corruption; Vice-Presidents;
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Silent spring revolution : John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the great environmental awakening / by Brinkley, Douglas,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-819) and index.Acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles in vivid detail how the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - and Carson's close partnership with President John F. Kennedy and his administration - launched the modern environmental movement. With Silent Spring Revolution, Brinkley thrillingly caps an arc of work exploring the 20th century histories of the Presidency and ecological awareness in the US, how we moved from the conservation imperatives of Theodore Roosevelt to today's intentional activism is a twisty tale of fits and starts, politics, money, villains, and heroes. Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson (a marine biologist and author), David Brower (director of the Sierra Club), Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott King (an antinuclear activist), Stewart Udall (the secretary of the interior), William O. Douglas (Supreme Court justice), Cesar Chavez (a labor organizer), and other crusaders are profiled with verve and insight. With the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion, this meticulously researched and deftly written book reminds us that a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can save the planet from ruin.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Conservationists; Environmentalism; Environmentalists;
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The Mafia's president : Nixon and the mob / by Fulsom, Don,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Organized crime; Political corruption; Misconduct in office; Presidents;
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American spy : my secret history in the CIA, Watergate, and beyond / by Hunt, E. Howard; Aunapu, Greg.; Hamburg, Eric.;
Subjects: Hunt, E. Howard (Everette Howard), 1918-2007.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Presidents; Spies; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.;
© c2007., John Wiley & Sons,
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Great society : a new history / by Shlaes, Amity,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index." In the 1960s, Americans sought the same goals many seek now: an end to poverty, higher standards of living for the middle class, a better environment and more access to health care and education. Then, too, we debated socialism and capitalism, public sector reform versus private sector advancement. Time and again, whether under John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, or Richard Nixon, the country chose the public sector. Yet the targets of our idealism proved elusive. What's more, Johnson's and Nixon's programs shackled millions of families in permanent government dependence. Ironically, Shlaes argues, the costs of entitlement commitments made a half century ago preclude the very reforms that Americans will need in coming decades."--
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.; Nineteen sixties.; Public housing;
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