3.5
The Nixon Tapes: 1973
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Between 1971 and 1973, President Richard Nixon's voice-activated tape recorders captured 3,700 hours of conversations. Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter's intrepid two-volume transcription and annotation of the highlights of this essential archive provides an unprecedented and fascinating window into the inner workings of a momentous presidency.
tells the concluding chapter of the story, the final year of taping, covering such events as the Vietnam cease-fire, the Wounded Knee standoff, and, of course, the Watergate investigation. Once again, there are revelations on every page. With Nixon's landslide 1972 reelection victory receding into the background and the scandal that would scuttle the administration looming,
reveals the inside story of the tragedy that followed the triumph.
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3.5
“I was intrigued by the premise behind this work. By now we all know about Watergate and Nixon's infamous tapes. For excellent reasons it is the scandal that defined Nixon's presidency. But there was more to Nixon than Watergate and this book sets out to explore that ground using the tapes as their only material. What we are presented with is a curated batch of excerpts from the transcripts of the pre-Watergate tapes. What you find is that there is nothing all that revealing in them. There are humorous moments, and disgusting moments, and some exchanges that are downright interesting. But it all gets a bit lost in this heavy, dense tome which, frankly, could probably have been curated a bit more aggressively.”
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