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Watergate: A Brief History with Documents places the reader at the epicenter of one of the most significant political scandals in American history. Watergate represented a constitutional crisis on a scale not experienced since the Civil War, and the documents included in this volume capture the powerful emotions of this crucial moment, revealing the partisan politics that were at play and the extraordinary efforts of participants to bring the episode to a conclusion without causing permanent damage to the Constitution. The documents include excerpts from speeches, news conferences,…mehr

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Watergate: A Brief History with Documents places the reader at the epicenter of one of the most significant political scandals in American history. Watergate represented a constitutional crisis on a scale not experienced since the Civil War, and the documents included in this volume capture the powerful emotions of this crucial moment, revealing the partisan politics that were at play and the extraordinary efforts of participants to bring the episode to a conclusion without causing permanent damage to the Constitution. The documents include excerpts from speeches, news conferences, congressional testimony, memos, and court rulings. Transcripts of tapes involving the White House staff, President Richard Nixon, members of Congress, the CIA, and FBI, and others are supplemented with transcripts of recently released tapes that reveal Nixon's innermost thoughts and reactions to events as they unfolded, including his awareness of the identity of the anonymous source known as "Deep Throat." This book serves as a powerful lesson in how American law and politics work and will resonate deeply with all readers, especially a new generation unfamiliar with the constitutional crisis that shook our nation and ultimately toppled a presidency.
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Stanley I. Kutler is the E. Gordon Fox Professor Emeritus of American Institutions, History, and Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of several books on American history, including Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (1997), which resulted from his successful lawsuit against the National Archives and Nixon that forced the release of the long-suppressed Watergate tapes. He is also the author of The Wars of Watergate (1990).
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"With his judicious selection of documents and his insightfuland clear narrative, Stanley Kutler, the dean of Watergatehistorians, provides the best brief treatment of the greatestpolitical scandal in American history."
Melvin Small, Wayne State University, author of ThePresidency of Richard Nixon

"Professor Kutler is the indispensable historian ofWatergate, and this is the indispensable sourcebook -- the keydocuments, placed in the deep context that only an expert canprovide."
Stanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University,editor-in-chief of The Oxford International Encyclopedia ofLegal History

"A fair-minded and accessible collection of key documents onthe most important political/ constitutional scandal of thetwentieth century, with succinct introductory essays by theacknowledged expert on the history of Watergate."
Jeffrey P. Kimball, Miami University, author ofNixon's Vietnam War

"Four decades after Nixon's election, Watergate remainsthe greatest constitutional crisis of our times, and any scholar,student, or citizen wishing to understand its enormity - andwhy it rocked the nation like no act of executive wrongdoing beforeor since - should peruse the documents in this indispensablevolume."
David Greenberg, Rutgers University, author of Nixon'sShadow: The History of an Image