Richard Nixon

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Title	Author	Year	Started	Finished	Opinion
Nixonland	Richard Perlstein				An excellent starting point for reading about Nixon. The primary focus of the book is Nixon, and while it isn't the most comprehensive portrait of Nixon's presidency (particularly Watergate and Nixon's resignation, as the book ends with the 1972 election), it provides a substantial amount of context for the parts of Nixon's presidency that are not covered. It is a book filled with astounding insights into how the political landscape of the Nixon presidency was shaped, and it is obvious, upon reading, how much of that political landscape still exists today. The book's most significant virtue is that it covers so many different topics, and provides a truly outstanding portrait of late 1960's/early 1970's America. This really made a difference in how the events of the Nixon presidency were understood by the reader.

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Title	Author	Year	Notes
The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon	Stanley Kutler	1990	Marriott Library LVL 2 (E860 .K87 1990 )
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes	Stanley Kutler	1997	Marriott Library LVL 2 (E860 .A26 1997 )
The Final Days	Boob Woodward, Carl Bernstein	1976	Follow-up to All The President's Men

Online Resources

• NixonTapes.org
  • http://nixontapes.org/transcripts.html
  • Provides audio and transcripts of many Nixon tapes, grouped by participants, themes, and chronology

• White House tapes archive @ Nixon Library
  • http://nixon.archives.gov/virtuallibrary/tapeexcerpts/index.php
  • Most material is only organized chronologically
  • Tapes related to the Watergate trial are grouped together
  • Some thematically-organized recordings provided here: http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/collections.php
  • White House tapes finding aids provides many useful indexes and information: http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/finding_aids/index.php