CREEP, Dirty Tricks, & Deep Throat: Watergate, 50 Years After the Resignation of Richard NixonLike this list

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• Watergate

  a New History

  Graff, Garrett M., 1981-

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  Remember Bob Woodward's informant codenamed 'Deep Throat"? Remember how there was endless speculation about his true identity? Graff puts a fairly definitive end to that.

• All the President's Men

  Woodward, Bob • Bernstein, Carl

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  Pop culture legend has it that these guys' dogged determination and noses for newses alone brought down Nixon and his accomplices. They didn't. Reporters from several other outlets got significant scoops that helped fill in the gaps of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bag Man

  the Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

  Maddow, Rachel,

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  Maddow does outrage tempered with scrupulous research and precise argumentation as well as any contemporary political writer.

• The Watergate Girl

  My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President

  Wine-Banks, Jill,

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  Nixon's White House was an old-school boys' club. Watergate, as a whole, had few women characters. Except for secretary-turned-Nixon's favorite-audio-engineer Rosemary Woods, most were peripheral to the real action (Maureen Dean, Martha…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nightmare

  the Underside of the Nixon Years

  Lukas, J. Anthony, 1933-1997

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  This one is more about the aftermath of the scandal. It covers the last month of his presidency--a time when serious people had serious discussions about the unimaginable. Could a president really go to jail? Would Nixon start lobbing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Personal History

  A Memoir

  Graham, Katharine

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  Woodward and Bernstein couldn't have done their thing if Graham hadn't backed them, which took considerable guts on her part. Not only did she hang in the same circles as the guys involved in the scandal, her newspaper (up to that time a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Most Dangerous

  Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

  Sheinkin, Steve

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  Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers were their own watershed moment that indirectly led to Watergate.

• The Secret Man

  the Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

  Woodward, Bob, 1943-

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  After thirty-plus years of demurring, Woodward offers his firsthand account of his relationship with history's most famous "source who wishes to remain anonymous."

• The Fall of Richard Nixon

  a Reporter Remembers Watergate

  Brokaw, Tom,

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  Watergate was perhaps the first event in history in which coverage of the coverage of the event was compelling as the event itself.