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These are specially selected books because they are primarily first person accounts that are very readable and very revealing of political realities and human behavior. Watergate unfolded like a combination of a Shakespearean drama as Nixon tries to escape the noose of truth while the daily broadcasts of the Watergate hearings brought the country to a uniform standstill and played like one of the best serialized dramas. The characters in the drama – the authors of the books below and Nixon’s aides – are all people true to their principles and points of view. These books are worth reading in succession. The end point of this mass or books is an obsession for the truth and a reverence for the Constitution.
New Books About Watergate:
All About the Story
News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post
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Democracy and Truth
A Short History
Published December 31, 2018
Reviews:
The Guardian
CATO
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Democracy in Chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Published June 5, 2018
Reviews:
New York Times
NPR
Kirkus
Democracy’s Detectives
The Economics of Investigative Journalism
Published October 8, 2018
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How Democracies Die
What History Reveals About Our Future
Published January 3, 2019
Reviews:
The Guardian
The Nation
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King Richard
Nixon and Watergate: An American Tragedy
Reviews:
New York Times
Washington Post
NPR
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Leak
Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat
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Nixon's Shadow
The History of an Image
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Poisoning the Press
Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture
Presidential Elections and Majority Rule
The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College
Published July 30, 2021
Reviews:
New York Journal of Books
The Case Against the Supreme Court
Published September 29, 2015
Reviews:
Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal
Kirkus
The Rise of American Democracy
Jefferson to Lincoln
Reviews:
New York Times
The Guardian
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These Truths
A History of the United States
Published October 1, 2019
Reviews:
New York Times
The Guardian
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This America
The Case for the Nation
Published May 28, 2019
Reviews:
New York Times
NPR
Kirkus
The Rumpus
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Watergate
A New History
Published February 15, 2022
Watergate's Legacy and the Press
The Investigative Impulse
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We the People
A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
Published November 13, 2018
Worse Than Nothing
The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
Published September 6, 2022
Reviews:
Kirkus
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First Person Accounts of the Senate Watergate Committee & John Dean:
At That Point In Time
The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee
Published January 1, 1975
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Blind Ambition
The White House Years
Published December 20, 2016
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Chief counsel
Inside the Ervin Committee – The Untold Story of Watergate
Published January 1, 1976
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The Whole Truth
The Watergate Conspiracy
Published September 1, 1980
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First Person Accounts of the Special Prosecutor, Watergate Conspirators & Nixon Tapes:
Stonewall
Published April 29, 1977
The Nixon Tapes: 1973
Published September 22, 2015
The Right and the Power
The Prosecution of Watergate
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To Set the Record Straight
The Break-In, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon
Published March 31, 1979
Third Person Histories of Watergate & Its Effects on the Nation:
The Conviction of Richard Nixon
The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
Published June 19, 2007
The Wars of Watergate
The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon
Published August 28, 2013
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Washington Journal
Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall
Published July 21, 2015
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Watergate In American Memory
How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The Past
Published November 17, 1993