King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

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King Richard is a 1973 book by Michael Dobbs that tells the story of the Watergate scandal and how it consumed and ultimately toppled President Richard Nixon. The book is based on thousands of hours of newly released taped recordings and provides a vivid account of the tension-packed hundred days when the conspiracy metastasized. Nixon is portrayed as a man whose strengths and fatal flaws led to his downfall.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 10 June 2021
Publisher: Scribe Publications

In January 1973, Richard Nixon was inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April, 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 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.

Weight: 512g
Dimension: 153 x 233 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913348731