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Loading... Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixonby Theodore H. White
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 1406 Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon, by Theodore H. White (read 4 Sept 1976) Watergate was old news by September 1976, but my reaction after reading it was: who could think that a book about Watergate could be as interesting as this? I found it extremely well-written and insightful--and it really put the story together much better than one saw it as one lived thru it. Certainly as weird a chapter in American history as I'll ever see, I said. [But now I am not so sure that was accurate, since the Supreme Court in December 2000 furnished a chapter rivaling it...] (  )1   Schmerguls | Feb 5, 2009 |   no reviews | add a review
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Theodore H. White starts this story with the last days of Richard Nixon in the White House -- as those closest recognized that he had deceived them and that they must force him out.
He follows the thread of manipulation back to its origin 20 years earlier and shows how the Nixon team came to see politics as war in which no quarter was given, in which the White House was a command post where ordinary rules did not apply, where power could be used without restraint.
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