King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy by Dobbs, Michael

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385350099)

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King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy by Dobbs, Michael

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy

$32.50
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy by Dobbs, Michael

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy

$32.50
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Michael Dobbs
ISBN-10: 0385350090
ISBN-13: 9780385350099
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2021
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2020 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 12/21/2020
Booklist 03/15/2021 pg. 28
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2021
Library Journal 05/01/2021 pg. 79
By Michael Dobbs
By Michael Dobbs
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MICHAEL DOBBS was born and educated in Britain, but is now a U.S. citizen. He was a long-time reporter for The Washington Post, covering the collapse of Communism as a foreign correspondent. He has taught at leading American universities, including Princeton, the University of Michigan, and Georgetown. His previous books include the best-selling One Minute to Midnight on the Cuban missile crisis, which was part of an acclaimed Cold War trilogy. He lives outside Washington, D.C.

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