Ken Hughes is a researcher at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program. His work as a journalist has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe Magazine, and Salon.
Ken Hughes is one of America's foremost experts on secret
presidential recordings, especially those of Lyndon Johnson and
Richard Nixon. In this book he has expertly identified and
explained one of the many drivers that put Nixon on the road to
Watergate.- Bob Woodward;
""Chasing Shadows tells a fascinating story of intrigue, lies, and
deception, almost as if out of a soap opera. It is the most
detailed study of the 1968 election as told through the White House
tapes that I have seen. This book is now the most complete and
comprehensive look at this episode.""- Thomas A. Schwartz,
Vanderbilt University, author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the
Shadow of Vietnam;
""[I]mpeccably sourced, with extensive use of White House tapes and
documents, memoirs by the various protagonists and other citations.
The Chennault saga has dribbled out in bits and pieces over the
years. Here it is told?or at least what we know is told, as Nixon’s
personal involvement is still a mystery?in one concise, thorough
volume.""- Politico;
""Tricky Dick: The nickname that keeps proving itself does so once
more here. It's no surprise to have confirmation, in a general way,
that Richard Nixon was a master of the abuse of power, for which
even Republicans haven't quite forgiven him. It's no surprise that
Lyndon Johnson played a particularly vehement kind of hardball
politics, as well. Nonetheless, Hughes, a researcher at the
University of Virginia's Miller Center Presidential Recordings
Program, turns up plenty of surprises in this careful analysis of
tape recordings from both administrations.... [An] utterly
newsworthy book.""- Kirkus;
""Chasing Shadows, the best account yet of Nixon’s devious
interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations,
shows just how early Nixon’s dirty tricks began and just how deeply
he was involved.""- Washington Post;
""Ken Hughes, the author of a new book about Nixon, Chasing
Shadows, joined Kunhardt for an interview with ""Top Line"" and
said that one of the most shocking recent revelations about Nixon
is that he intentionally prolonged the war in Vietnam for political
gain.... ""There is I think an extra degree of openness and candor
with the people who don't know they are being taped,"" Hughes said.
""Henry Kissinger clearly did not know he was being taped and was
very angry about being taped.""- Yahoo News;
""Hughes shows that we still have much to learn by connecting the
dots of Nixon’s angry venting and the shadowy world of
national-security spying.""- Atlantic;
""In Chasing Shadows, Hughes draws on the private recordings of
Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon to connect the dots between the
crime Nixon committed to help him win the 1968 presidential
election (referred to as the Chennault Affair), his myriad abuses
of power while in office and, ultimately, his downfall and
resignation. Full of fascinating scenes and candid conversations
pulled verbatim from Nixon's tapes, Hughes's book is as compelling
as a novel.""- Shelf Awareness;
""In Chasing Shadows, Ken Hughes explores Nixon's role in thwarting
Vietnam peace talks before the 1968 election.... In Washington...
there still seems to be an audience. When Ms. [Elizabeth] Drew and
Mr. Hughes joined Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the famed
investigative reporters, for a panel discussion of Nixon's
resignation at the headquarters of The Washington Post last week,
the line stretched out the door and down the block.""- New York
Times;
""Hughes' linking of the Huston break-in plan to Chennault's
activities provides a credible new rationale to the allegation that
Nixon was indeed involved in the caper that could have cost
Humphrey the 1968 election--and had it come to light earlier,
denied Nixon the White House.""- Baltimore Sun
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