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Author
Publisher
Union Square Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
It was the election that ultimately gave America "Camelot" and its tragic aftermath. 1960 is a stunning recreation of the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race, religion, and foreign policy. And, at the center of it all, three future presidents-Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon.
In this essential work of history,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of our modern era."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed One Minute to Midnight: a sharply focused, riveting account--told from inside the White House--of the crucial months when the Watergate conspiracy consumed itself and brought down the president"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tim Weiner paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon's demise were inextricably linked.
10) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Three years after leaving office, Richard Nixon confronts the questions of his time in office when the Watergate scandal ended his presidency in a history-making interview with British television personality David Frost.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
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 account begins with the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus. Yet the next year, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback. Between 1965 and...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A study of the partnership between the thirty-seventh President and his wife argues that the couple endured political and intimate disappointments during their fifty-three-year marriage but ultimately shared genuine affection.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson, ... David Brower, ... Barry Commoner, ... Coretta Scott King, ... Stewart Udall, ... William O. Douglas, ... Cesar Chavez, ... and other crusaders are profiled. ... [Carson's book Silent Spring] launched an ecological revolution that inspired such landmark legislation as the Wilderness Act (1964), the Clean Air Acts (1963 and 1970),...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. It...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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?...
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