02462cam a2200349 i 4500 555621420 TxAuBib 20220504120000.0 210605s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021025883 9781432891800 large print hardcover 1432891804 large print hardcover (OCoLC)1256592321 TxAuBib rda Dobbs, Michael, 1950- King Richard : Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy / Michael Dobbs. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. ©2021. 629 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-623). "In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called "a full-blown cancer." King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate burglars and their handlers in the administration turned on one another, revealing their direct connection ties to the White House. Drawing on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs takes us into the very heart of the conspiracy, recreating these dramatic events in unprecedentedly vivid detail. He captures the growing paranoia of the principal players and their desperate attempts to deflect blame as the noose tightened around them and the daily pressures became increasingly unbearable. At the center of this spellbinding drama is Nixon himself, a man whose strengths, particularly his determination to win at all costs, were also his fatal flaws. Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, this is an epic and deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal."-- Provided by publisher. 20220504. Nixon, Richard M (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. Large type books. United States Politics and government 1969-1974. TXCKT