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Book Synopsis The Watergate Crisis by : Michael A. Genovese
Download or read book The Watergate Crisis written by Michael A. Genovese and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference provides background information about the Watergate crisis and discusses its significance to U.S. politics today. Relatively insignificant at first glance, the Watergate crisis led to the downfall of a president and emerged as the most important constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Journalists and the media were instrumental in shedding light on Watergate and exposing political corruption at the highest levels of government. Watergate became part of American popular culture and synonymous with presidential corruption. This book surveys the background of the Watergate crisis and links it to contemporary American politics. The first part of the book provides a narrative overview and examination of the Watergate crisis, with a consideration of what happened and why, and the relevance of Watergate to today's political issues. The book considers such topics as political corruption and impeachment, the role of the media, and the abuse of presidential power. The book also offers biographical sketches of key players in the Watergate crisis, a chronology, glossary, primary source document excerpts, and an annotated bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Watergate Crisis by : Michael A. Genovese
Download or read book The Watergate Crisis written by Michael A. Genovese and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to a narrative overview and a series of topical essays about Watergate, this guide provides a timeline of events, biographical sketches of the key players, the text of important primary documents, a glossary of terms, and an annotated bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Watergate written by Keith W. Olson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous “Deep Throat,” the media’s role in the scandal, both during and afterwards, including Bob Woodward’s Second Man. Arguably the greatest political scandal of twentieth-century America, the Watergate affair rocked an already divided nation to its very core, severely challenged our cherished notions about democracy, and further eroded public trust in its political leaders. The 1972 break-in at Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel--by five men acting under the direction of a Republican president's closest aides and his staff--created a constitutional crisis second only to the Civil War and ultimately toppled the Nixon presidency. With its sordid trail of illegal wiretapping, illicit fundraising, orchestrated cover-up, and destruction of evidence, it was the scandal that made every subsequent national political scandal a "gate" as well. A disturbing tale made famous by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men, the Watergate scandal has been extensively dissected and vigorously debated. Keith Olson, however, offers for the first time a "layman's guide to Watergate," a concise and readable one-volume history that highlights the key actors, events, and implications in this dark drama. John Dean, John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, Judge John Sirica, Senator Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, and the ghostly "Deep Throat" reappear here--in a volume designed especially for a new generation of readers who know of Watergate only by name and for teachers looking for a straightforward summary for the classroom. Olson first recaps the events and attitudes that precipitated the break-in itself. He then analyzes the unmasking of the cover-up from both the president's and the public's perspective, showing how the skepticism of politicians and media alike gradually intensified into a full-blown challenge to Nixon's increasingly suspicious actions and explanations. Olson fully documents for the first time the key role played by Republicans in this unmasking, putting to rest charges that the "liberal establishment" drove Nixon from the White House. He also chronicles the snowballing public outcry (even among Nixon's supporters) for the president's removal. In a remarkable display of nonpartisan unity, leading public and private voices in Congress and the media demanded the president's resignation or impeachment. In a final chapter, Olson explores the Cold War contexts that encouraged an American president to convince himself that the pursuit of "national security" trumped even the Constitution. As America approaches the thirtieth anniversary of the infamous Watergate hearings and the overreach of presidential power is again at issue, Olson's book offers a quick course on the scandal itself, a sobering reminder of the dangers of presidential arrogance, and a tribute to the ultimate triumph of government by the people.
Book Synopsis Watergate and the Resignation of Richard Nixon by : Harry P. Jeffrey
Download or read book Watergate and the Resignation of Richard Nixon written by Harry P. Jeffrey and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2004-08-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Topical essays by political, legal, history, and communications scholars examine the effects of the crisis over time. Primary source materials, including transcripts from oral interviews, Nixon's speeches, the infamous Watergate tapes, excerpts from congressional hearings, the proposed articles of impeachment, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, political cartoons, and more are put in context with explanatory headnotes. The foreword by John W. Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, provides valuable insight into the scandal and its historical implications."--Jacket.
Download or read book Watergate written by Keith W. Olson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 1972 break-in at Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel - by five men acting under the direction of a Republican president's closest aides and his staff - created a constitutional crisis second only to the Civil War and ultimately toppled the Nixon presidency. With its sordid trail of illegal wiretapping, illicit fund-raising, orchestrated cover-up, and destruction of evidence, it was the scandal that made every subsequent national political scandal a "gate" as well." "A disturbing tale made famous by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men, the Watergate scandal has been extensively dissected and vigorously debated. Keith Olson, however, offers for the first time a "layman's guide" to Watergate, a concise and readable one-volume history that highlights the key actors, events, and implications in this dark drama. John Dean, John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, Judge John Sirica, Senator Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, and the ghostly "Deep Throat" reappear here, in a volume designed especially for a new generation of readers who know of Watergate only by name and for teachers looking for a straightforward summary for the classroom."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book King Richard written by Michael Dobbs and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF USA TODAY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president—from the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight. In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. He enjoyed an almost 70 percent approval rating. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called “a full-blown cancer.” King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate conspiracy unraveled as the burglars and their handlers turned on one another, exposing the crimes of a vengeful president. Drawing on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs takes us into the heart of the conspiracy, recreating these traumatic events in cinematic detail. He captures the growing paranoia of the principal players and their desperate attempts to deflect blame as the noose tightens around them. We eavesdrop on Nixon plotting with his aides, raging at his enemies, while also finding time for affectionate moments with his family. The result is an unprecedentedly vivid, close-up portrait of a president facing his greatest crisis. Central to the spellbinding drama is the tortured personality of Nixon himself, a man whose strengths, particularly his determination to win at all costs, become his fatal flaws. Rising from poverty to become the most powerful man in the world, he commits terrible errors of judgment that lead to his public disgrace. He makes himself—and then destroys himself. Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, King Richard is an epic, deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.
Book Synopsis The Wars of Watergate by : Stanley I. Kutler
Download or read book The Wars of Watergate written by Stanley I. Kutler and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 1181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first truly comprehensive history of the political explosion that shook America in the 1970s, and whose aftereffects are still being felt in public life today. Drawing on contemporary documents, personal interviews, memoirs, and a vast quantity of new material, Stanley Kutler shows how President Nixon’s obstruction of justice from the White House capped a pattern of abuse that marked his entire tenure in office. He makes clear how the drama of Watergate is rooted not only in the tumultuous events and social tensions of the 1960s but also in the personality and history of Richard Nixon. Kutler examines Nixon’s confrontations with the institutions he feared and resented—the Congress, the federal agencies, the news media, the Washington establishment—and how they mobilized to topple the President. He considers the arguments of Nixon’s defenders, who insisted that Watergate was a minor affair, and the contention that the President did nothing worse than his predecessors had done. He offers compelling portraits of the President’s men—H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, Charles Colson, John Dean; of his adversaries—Judge John Sirica, the U.S. Attorneys, Special Prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski; and of the legislators who would stand in judgment—Sam Ervin and Peter Rodino. In the course of his engrossing narrative, Stanley Kutler illuminates the constitutional crisis brought on by Watergate. He shows how Watergate diminished the moral level of American political life, and illustrates its continuing detrimental impact on the credibility, authority, and prestige of the Presidency in particular and the government in general. His book underlines for the American electorate the significance of Watergate for the future of our political ethics and the maintenance of our constitutional system, as well as for the place of Richard Nixon in American history.
Download or read book Watergate written by Fred Emery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced, hard-hitting narrative, Emery illuminates as never before the coalescence of improbable events, dramatic errors, quirks of fate, and profound character flaws that led to the Watergate scandal. "A comprehensive account of this century's most notorious political scandal . . . brisk and lucid".--Paul Weissman, New York Times Book Review. Photos.
Book Synopsis Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis by : Congressional Quarterly, inc
Download or read book Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by Washington : Congressional Quarterly. This book was released on 1973 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter includes the entire Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report coverage of a single week's Watergate developments.
Download or read book The Final Days written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men. The Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon’s dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon’s fall from office—one of the gravest crises in presidential history.
Book Synopsis The Watergate Scandal in American History by : David K. Fremon
Download or read book The Watergate Scandal in American History written by David K. Fremon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how a burglary at the Watergate hotel-office complex helped expose other illegal acts that took place in high levels of government during the Nixon administration. It explores the people and events involved in the political scandal that eventually forced the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon and changed the face of American politics.
Book Synopsis The Watergate Scandal in United States History by : David K. Fremon
Download or read book The Watergate Scandal in United States History written by David K. Fremon and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Headquarters located in Washington, D.C. What soon became clear was that the men who broke into the Watergate building were not ordinary burglars. They worked for the committed to re-elect President Richard Nixon and these illegal acts helped expose the fact that government officials were committing staggering crimes. This book explores the people and events involved in the political scandal that eventually forced the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon and changed the face of American politics. This book is developed from the WATERGATE SCANDAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.
Download or read book Watergate written by Fred Emery and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the definitive history of the Watergate scandal—based on the most recently released tapes, in-depth interviews with many of the participants, and hundreds of official and unofficial documents, including notes Haldeman omitted from his own published diaries. Emery's comprehensive coverage and penetrating insights clear up many uncertainties that may still remain about the scandal and the extent of Nixon's involvement. Authoritative and compelling, Watergate is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand fully this traumatizing episode in America's history that challenged the integrity of its political system.
Book Synopsis Watergate and Afterward by : Leon Friedman
Download or read book Watergate and Afterward written by Leon Friedman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-08-24 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, and former Nixon Administration officials to examine the Watergate controversy and its legacy. Particular attention is paid to Nixon's misuse of government power for political ends, his administration's obsession with secrecy and the control of information, and the impeachment proceedings in Congress. This is the second in a trilogy of titles based on the Hofstra Presidential Conference on Richard M. Nixon (the first, Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator [Greenwood, 1991], was also edited by Friedman and Levantrosser). Watergate and Afterward includes a final assessment of the Nixon Presidency by a group of biographers who have written extensively about the man and his politics, as well as appraisals of Nixon's accomplishments and failures by both administration figures and outside historians. Special effort was made throughout to incorporate opposing points of view on the various issues under discussion, making this one of the most comprehensive and balanced assessments of the Watergate scandal and its aftermath available in print. The book begins with essays that describe the political reactions to Watergate and Nixon's attempt to remove the first special prosecutor on the case. In the discussion section that follows, new insight into what the break-in was supposed to accomplish is provided by Reverend Jeb Stuart Magruder, speaking for the first time in a public forum. Subsequent papers discuss the different efforts by the Nixon Administration to uncover information about political opponents, the politicization of the Justice Department, the constitutional confrontation in the Supreme Court over the Nixon tapes, and the Pentagon Papers case. Discussants include Charles Colson, who was in the White House at the time, Tom Brokaw of NBC, and Ron Ziegler and Gerald Warren of the White House press office. Finally, the impeachment proceedings are reexamined in chapters that explore the specific charges against the president and the political coalitions that formed in Congress around them. Ideal as supplemental reading for courses on the presidency and modern American politics, Watergate and Afterward is an important contribution to our understanding of this critical period in postwar history.
Download or read book Dirty Tricks written by Shane O'Sullivan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The victory of Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1968 swung on an “October Surprise”— a treasonous plot engineered by key figures in the Republican Party to keep the South Vietnamese government away from peace talks in Paris, costing thousands of American lives. There is growing evidence that the CIA was deeply involved in illegal domestic operations targeting Daniel Ellsberg, and in the Watergate break-ins during Nixon’s 1972 campaign, which ultimately led to his downfall. CIA Director Richard Helms’ relationship with Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt was much closer than previously disclosed and the CIA agent inside the plot was sent on a double agent mission by American intelligence after he got out of prison. Drawing on newly-declassified files and previously-unpublished documents, Dirty Tricks debunks the myths around Watergate and deepens our understanding of the “dirty tricks” that undermined democracy during the Nixon years and destroyed public trust in politics during the seventies. These scandals turn on the covert action of two powerful interest groups—the senior CIA officers around Helms, and the key advisers around Nixon – in this chilling story of political espionage and deception.
Download or read book Watergate written by Dale Anderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Watergate scandal that caused President Nixon to resign as president of the United States.
Book Synopsis The Watergate Scandal by : 50MINUTES.COM,
Download or read book The Watergate Scandal written by 50MINUTES.COM, and published by 50Minutes.com. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Watergate scandal in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Watergate scandal. What started out as an apparently ordinary break-in at the DNC headquarters soon turned into a full-blown scandal that would change the face of American politics forever. It led to the discovery of corruption and embezzlement on the part of the Nixon administration, the resignation of many government officials, and an impeachment resolution being brought against the president himself. In just 50 minutes you will: • Discover the suspicious circumstances surrounding the break-in at the Democrat Party’s headquarters • Learn about the gradual discovery of more and more information implicating senior White House officials in corruption and embezzlement • Understand the events of the dramatic build-up to the impeachment process against Nixon and his eventual resignation ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture 50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.
