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From Garrett Graff, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate-"the best and fullest account of the crisis, one unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)-exploring the full scope of the scandal through the…
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This is the best book on the first great American political crisis of recent memory. It’s unlikely ever to be surpassed.
Its author, an experienced journalist, offers up almost 700 pages of propulsively brisk prose about the astonishing corruption, amateurishness, and stunning incompetence of the presidential administration of Richard Nixon. Even for someone who knows much of the scandal, it’s revelatory.
Were the book’s characters for real? Why did such a natively intelligent president fall prey to such destructive paranoia and surround himself with such fools?
Read as an adventure story, the book equals such rip-snorting classics as Treasure Island…
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