The first full portrait of Mark Felt, whose career with the FBI ranged from the end of the great American crime wave through the culture wars of the 1960s, provides a personal context to the "Deep Thr
In this reassessment of America's most complicated president, the only one ever forced to resign, Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew raises the question of whether Richard M. Nixon was fit to hold
More than thirty years after working side-by-side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger remain two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful men in America in the second hal
More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the
Hosansky (a former senior writer at CQ Weekly) weaves weekly reports from the Congressional Quarterly, originally published as the Watergate scandal was unfolding from the Senate hearings in early 197
The late Thompson's inimitable style of "gonzo" journalism was on full display in this series of articles originally written for and serialized in Rolling Stone magazine, covering the 1972 Democratic
The mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his lo
Entries describe the decade's events, musical groups and performers, authors, political groups, movies, and literature, each assessing the topic's impact and tracing subsequent events.
Entries describe the decade's events, musical groups and performers, authors, political groups, movies, and literature, each assessing the topic's impact and tracing subsequent events.
Complementing the encyclopedias they've already published on the 'fifties and 'sixties, this three-volume set contains 672 entries on topics of political, social, and cultural events, issues, and peop
Entries describe the decade's events, musical groups and performers, authors, political groups, movies, and literature, each assessing the topic's impact and tracing subsequent events.
Although the 1970s may seem like a quiet decade compared to the 1960s, it was actually a time of violence and political unrest. It was also a decade of positive changes and many firsts. For example,
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 in presidential history.
Richard Nixon considered establishing a strong peacetime economy one of his most important political objectives, [not least for] distinguishing himself from the cautious policies of President Dwight E
William Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon from 1968 to 1973. During that time, as a Washington insider, Safire was able to observe the thirty-seventh president in his entirety: as noble and
Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist, Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New
Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies ha
Historians and political scientists, law professors and communications scholars examine the events surrounding the 1972-74 Watergate scandal and Nixon's presidency, their effects on the federal govern
