books about: watergate

books about: watergate

books:

Watergate

In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate

L. Patrick Gray, Ed Gray

Times Books, 2008

Great Watergate book
What a great book. L. Patrick Gray is a tragic figure. Stumbles into the FBI Directorship job, gets caught up in all the FBI backstabbing, and on top of it, gets his name thrown in with the criminals of Watergate. Even more tragic is that Mark Felt comes out a hero for ...

Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy

St. Martin's Press, 1996

AMAZING.
Wow, what a book, and G. Gordon Liddy, what a character, simply fascinating. This book, while obviously telling the story of the man's life, proves to be a superb commentary on American society. I personally enjoyed Mr. Liddy's comments on family life, ...

Born Again (Hendrickson Classic Biographies)

Charles W. Colson

Hendrickson Publishers, 2008

Could anything good come of Watergate?
It's been 30 years since the events of Watergate started making history. A whole generation has grown up largely unaware, I suspect, of the significance of those events. I've followed Chuck Colson's work and writing almost since the beginning of Prison Fellowship and ...

All the President's Men

Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

Pocket, 2005

IT COULD NOT HAPPEN NOW!!!!
"All The President's Men" (2 DISC) is a classic film and book about an important period in American Political History. The Reporters, The Director and his Actors should feel proud. Two intrepid reports expose the rampant corruption within the Whitehouse and bring down ...

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

John W. Dean

Grand Central Publishing, 2005

Bush and Cheney Get Exposed
This book is a well researched and documented examination of the excesses of the Bush/Cheney presidency and how this came to be. In the book, Dean looks at the issues of secrecy within the White House, lying and dirty tricks. And, if there is anyone, anywhere who knows ...

Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes

Irving L. Janis

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982

A classic work in decision-making
When you fill a room with smart, capable people, why do decisions sometimes go so wrong? Janis has one hypothesis: They can become victims of "groupthink." Groupthink refers to (Page 9) ". . .deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment ...

The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy

Geoff Shepard

Sentinel HC, 2008

A New Perspective on an Old Story
As a present-day "liberal" (Witness the "Goldwater in '64" bumper sticker I've got framed and hanging on my office wall), I suppose I should be all upset about the premise of this book, but now, as I near the end of a great read, the book has me wondering. Did John ...

Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore (Oxford History of the United States, vol. ...

James T. Patterson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

First good history of the last 30 years
I read this book for a graduate class in American history. James T. Patterson's book is a historical overview of American history, which starts with one constitutional crisis and one of America's darkest hours politically, the resignation of President Richard Nixon, ...

Shadow : Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

Bob Woodward

Simon & Schuster, 2000

Inside of the White House
Another Bob Woodward book, another masterpiece. I am getting great pleasure from his books. Detailed research, witnesses, and main character interviews are combined to revealed truth with every respect. In Shadows, he discovers the last five presidents scandals and ...

The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate

James Rosen

Doubleday, 2008

John Mitchell
One of the best books I've read all year. By taking the focus away from Nixon, an entirely different story emerges. One in which a new tragic figure takes center stage and redefines many of our preconceptions of the Watergate and its cast of characters. A great ...

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

Bob Woodward

Simon & Schuster, 2005

Mark Felt: Patriot or Traitor?
[John] Dean made the sort of mistake that Arthur Conan Doyle warned of. He theorized that because Deep Throat knew the Nixon White House, he must have actually worked within the Nixon White House. After all, Dean's own formative experience was at the Nixon White House. ...

Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews

David Frost

Harper Perennial, 2007

The Origin of our Current Political Culture
Frost never quite comes out and says it, but it is clear reading the book that Nixon ultimately won. Nixon didn't "win" in the interview with Frost, but Nixon's paranoid views and his belief in unlimited presidential authority have prevailed. Things that Nixon said ...

Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 (History of the American ...

David A. Cook

University of California Press, 2002

Excellent account of Seventies film
Of the volumes in the excellent History of the American Cinema series, this is the best by far. Cook provides a superb, balanced overview of the film industry in the 1970s, considering practically every aspect of the topic--from the economics of the industry to the ...

Watergate

Fred Emery

Touchstone, 1995

Great Book
This is a great book that became the basis for the Discovery Channel's 5-part documentary on Watergate. It is an extensive examination of the entire Watergate episode based on interviews with the relevant participants (excluding Nixon and Mitchell). In fact, Emery ...