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Author:
Michael Dobbs
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
May 25, 2021
From the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight: anaccount of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. Drawing on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs takes us into the heart of the conspiracy.
What The Reviewers Say
...rich and kaleidoscopic.
... in King Richard, veteran journalist and author Michael Dobbs stirs memories of the intense personal drama connecting that break-in to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
Michael Dobbs makes a splendid case that Nixon was 'an American tragedy,' though I have a quibble. In the classic Greek and Shakespearean definition, there is absolutely nothing the tragic hero can do to avoid his destiny.
It is no slight to King Richard to say that it doesn’t bristle with shocking new revelations or challenge familiar understandings of Nixon and Watergate. It’s what historians call a work of synthesis — a blending of years of others’ journalism and scholarship with one’s own research to create a reliable and authoritative overview for our times. Within those limits, it succeeds admirably. Dobbs has a talent for you-are-there description.
