Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes

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Under a Supreme Court ruling, the tapes containing every Oval Office conversation revealing Richard Nixon's abuse of presidential power have been freed for publication, despite the strenuous efforts of Nixon and his heirs to prevent their release. This edited and annotated transcription covers the whole period of the Nixon presidency, incorporating evidence of his direct role in the obstruction of justice during "Watergate", and a proposed five-million-dollar scheme for the secret financing of a black presidential candidate to split the Democratic vote. Nixon's own voice and those of his closest advisers expose an administration steeped in corruption.

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Joseph Finder The New York Times Book Review It's oddly refreshing to get the undiluted, unmediated sense of hugger-mugger...It makes for spellbinding reading, and plunges us back into that sordid, astonishing world like nothing else. Daniel Casse The Wall Street Journal Just when you thought we didn't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore...these new tapes show a president deeply immersed in the mechanics of a cover-up, giving full voice to the earthy language that, twenty-five years ago, made "expletive deleted" a household phrase. Robert Scheer Los Angeles Times Book Review Richard Nixon has been the subject of countless portraits, but none is more compelling than the one that emerges from these grotesque and riveting pages: Nixon raw, in his own words, a president unmasked.

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Stanley I. Kutler is the E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon, the editor of The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American History, the historical advisor for the Emmy-winning television documentary Watergate, and the founding editor of Reviews in American History.