DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is a professor of history at Rice University, CBS
News Historian, and contributing editor of Vanity Fair. He is the
author of seven New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His
recent New York Times bestsellers include Cronkite, The Wilderness
Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, and The
Reagan Diaries.
LUKE NICHTER is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M
University-Central Texas. He is a noted expert on the Nixon tapes
as a result of his efforts to digitize the nearly 4,000 hours of
recordings he makes available online as a public service, and he is
the author of an ongoing petition before the District Court for the
District of Columbia to open Watergate-related government records
still sealed in the National Archives. Nichter's work has been
reported on by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the
Associated Press.
"The editors artfully cull from the more than 3,500 hours of tapes a fairly coherent documentary record...the exchanges published here give a more vivid sense than most accounts of the climate of urgency, risk and anticipation that enveloped Nixon's and Kissinger's effort. To witness these two titans of ambition, vainglory and suspicion...is to receive gritty instruction in statecraft and psychology alike." -- New York Times Book Review "Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter... have heroically compiled a huge, fascinating and devastatingly accurate portrait of the 37th president...groundbreaking" -- San Francisco Chronicle "A monumental accomplishment. . . Nichter's decade of research into the tapes has only deepened his understanding of this rich period of U.S. history, and his collaboration with Brinkley will only enrich Americans' knowledge of the Nixon administration." -- USA Today "An eye-opening reckoning of crimes, misdemeanors and bugging technology 40 years after Richard Nixon's ignominious departure from the White House . . . Essential for students of the era and fascinating for those who lived it." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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