ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- 1973-Nixon has just won a second term as president in a landslide victory- in just over a year he will resign the Presidency in disgrace. Dobbs presents the Watergate story as if it were a classic Greek tragedy, how a once incredibly popular president should fall so drastically from grace. Nixon is presented as a complex, intelligent and insecure man-a person at constant war not only with himself but with what he considers his greatest enemy, the press. Using thousands of hours of newly released tapes this book takes the reader into the heart of the Watergate crisis leaving the reader not only feeling somewhat sympathetic towards the main players and their inevitable downfall but also disgust at the misuse and corruptible nature that is power. Greg Waldron
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president.
Michael Dobbs was born and educated in Britain, but is now a US citizen. He was a long-time reporter for The Washington Post, covering the collapse of communism as a foreign correspondent, and he has taught at Princeton, Georgetown, and the University of Michigan. The author of a Cold War trilogy that includes Down with Big Brother, One Minute to Midnight, and Six Months in 1945, he lives outside Washington, DC.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- 1973-Nixon has just won a second term as president in a landslide victory- in just over a year he will resign the Presidency in disgrace. Dobbs presents the Watergate story as if it were a classic Greek tragedy, how a once incredibly popular president should fall so drastically from grace. Nixon is presented as a complex, intelligent and insecure man-a person at constant war not only with himself but with what he considers his greatest enemy, the press. Using thousands of hours of newly released tapes this book takes the reader into the heart of the Watergate crisis leaving the reader not only feeling somewhat sympathetic towards the main players and their inevitable downfall but also disgust at the misuse and corruptible nature that is power. Greg Waldron