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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors; call police. The five men-Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Baker, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis-arrested and charged with attempted burglary that night kicked off the biggest scandal in American politics. Over the next two...
7) Crooked
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Reimagines the cold war as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero--Richard Nixon" --
"Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the button-down fifties, the Mad Men sixties, and the turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind...
Author
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents volume 37
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Richard M. Nixon was the first president ever to resign from office. He lost his first run for president in 1960 by a paper-thin margin to John F. Kennedy. In his second run in 1968, he was elected on a pledge to end the war in Vietnam. He reduced American involvement in the war and was re-elected to a second term in 1972. Soon after, a treaty ended U.S. participation in Vietnam. He later visited China, beginning restoration of relations with the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A former White House Counsel and one of the last surviving major figures from Watergate uses his own transcripts from hundreds of conversations as well as documents in the archives to definitively determine what Nixon knew and when he knew it.
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Evan Thomas delivers the best single-volume biography of Richard Nixon to date, a radical, unique portrait of a complicated figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. The New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder, Thomas brings new life to one of American history’s most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians, dispensing with myths to achieve an intimate and evenhanded look at the actual...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Draws on recently declassified documents to chronicle one of the most disastrous presidencies in U.S. history, presenting a portrait of a brilliant man overcome by his deep insecurities and his distrust of his cabinet, Congress, and the American people.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the first and only president to resign from office in anticipation of certain impeachment. The year preceding that moment was filled with shocking revelations and bizarre events, full of power politics, legal jujitsu, and high-stakes showdowns, and with head-shaking surprises every day. As the countrys top reporters worked to discover the...
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