 | The Time of Illusion by Jonathan Schell
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.01 There are two camps dealing with this endlessly fascinating subject: the hip & the square. Schell's book is the best of the square: smart, immediate, and the best written. A great place to start.
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 | Nightmare: Underside Of Nixon Years by J. Anthony Lukas
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $3.95 Great book. Ranks with the Schell for immediacy and outrage.
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 | The Final Days by Bob Woodward
Buy used from: $0.01 Primary source. Better than "All the President's Men" -- but just as compromised. If Richard Helms and Ben Bradlee were in a room together, who would the devil take first?
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 | The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon by Stanley I. Kutler
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.99 As four-square as you can get. Kutler has all the imagination of a hall-monitor, yet the info presented(despite him) is so intriguing, you won't be able to put it down.
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 | Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes by Stanley Kutler
Buy new: $33.85 / Used from: $0.84 Ignore Kutler's bland analysis, and read the words themselves.
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 | The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon by Anthony Summers
Buy used from: $0.01 Not only do Establishmentarians have agendas, so do sour conspiracists. Nixon seems capable of anything in this book. And he was -- if only he wasn't so dumb.
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 | Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character by Fawn McKay Brodie
Buy used from: $0.07 The most beautifully written of all the Nixon books, Brodie burns with rage at the squalor of her subject's character and actions.
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| Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA by Jim Hougan
Buy used from: $0.05 Viola! This one comes closest to the secret. Wish Hougan would start again, and include everything we've learned over the last 20 years.
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| Big Brother and the Holding Company: The world behind Watergate
Buy used from: $13.91 Creepy conspiracy book. A lot like getting inside Dick Nixon's head. Like I said, creepy.
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| Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-1974 by Elizabeth Drew
Buy used from: $0.36 Well, she used to be good. Very good. A great time capsule, told from a generous-hearted liberal POV that's as vanished as the Hollywood Palace.
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