Full name: Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon

Author: Theodore H. White Year: 1975 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780689106583

The Nixon crisis of 1973-74 threatened the state in ways not immediately understood. Stripped of drama & confusion, however, the problem was that the President had placed himself above the law. The nation had to decide whether that could be allowed. Theodore H. White starts this story with the last days of Richard Nixon in the White House--as those closest recognized he'd deceived them & that they must force him out. He follows the thread of manipulation back to its origin 20 years earlier & shows how the Nixon team came to see politics as war without quarter, in which the White House was a command post where ordinary rules didn't apply, where power could be used without restraint. Let justice be done The politics of manipulation Poor Richard: how things work The team: from politics to power The White House of Richard Nixon: from style to heresy The underground: from crime to conspiracy Victory 1972: design for control The tapes: a tour inside the mind of Richard Nixon The systems respond: Spring 1973 Firestorm: Fall 1973 The question period: Winter-Spring 1974 Judgment: Summer 1974 Breach of faith Appendix A: The articles of impeachment Appendix B: Richard Nixon's farewell statement, 8/8/74 Similar books: Abuse of Power by Stanley Kutler Watergate by Fred Emery The Wars of Watergate by Stanley Kutler The Haldeman Diaries by H. R. Haldeman The Nixon Defense by John W. Dean The Arrogance of Power by Anthony Summers Blind Ambition by John W. Dean 31 Days by Barry Werth Frost/Nixon by David Frost Nixon and Kissinger by Robert Dallek Shadow by Bob Woodward One Man Against the World by Tim Weiner Nixon Agonistes by Garry Wills The Final Days by Bob Woodward Kennedy and Nixon by Christopher J. Matthews America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne The Amateur by Edward Klein No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin