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Pub. Date
2021.
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xi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"From the author of the acclaimed One Minute to Midnight: a sharply focused, riveting account--told from inside the White House--of the crucial months when the Watergate conspiracy consumed itself and brought down the president"--
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2015.
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291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle with the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's...
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The Great Shark Hunt features Thompson's early writings, which focus on the political and social turbulence of mid-20th-century America. With his signature style, these essays show his evolution from a sports reporter to the outrageous, insightful and always daring creator of Gonzo Journalism.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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On June 13, 1971, the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War. Known as The Pentagon Papers, these documents had been commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Chronicling every action the government had taken in the Vietnam War, they revealed a pattern of deception spanning over twenty years and four presidencies, and forever changed the relationship...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxi, 819 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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"A selection of transcribed audio recordings from 1973 covers Nixon and Kissinger's private knowledge of flaws in the 1973 Vietnam peace agreement and the early warnings about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, "--Novelist.
12) Richard M. Nixon
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Pub. Date
2007
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xviii, 187 p. : port. ; 22 cm.
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The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency. In this revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, Washington journalist Drew explains how Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to understanding his presidency. She shows how Nixon was surprisingly indecisive on domestic issues and often wasn't interested in them. Turning to international affairs, she reveals the inner workings of Nixon's...
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2018.
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x, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents...
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The untold story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war in Vietnam. This movie profiles an event that profoundly impacted American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from memory.
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Pub. Date
2008
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xiii, 881 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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An account of the thirty-seventh presidency sets Nixon's administration against a backdrop of the tumultuous civil rights movement while offering insight into how key events in the 1960s set the stage for today's political divides.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xx, 856 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan.
17) The Nixon tapes
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 758 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Revealing a flawed president's hubris, paranoia and political genius, this selection of transcribed audio recordings of Oval Office, Cabinet Room and Camp David conversations between 1971 and 1972 sheds new light on one of the most important and controversial presidencies in U.S. history.
"The famous--and infamous--Nixon White House tapes that reveal for the first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in his own words President...
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"The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington--and Hanoi--to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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x, 258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive...
20) The Post
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
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