Watergate: A Brief History with Documents - Softcover

?With his judicious selection of documents and his insightful and clear narrative, Stanley Kutler, the dean of Watergate historians, provides the best brief treatment of the greatest political scandal in American history.? Melvin Small, Wayne State University, author of The Presidency of Richard Nixon ?Professor Kutler is the indispensable historian of Watergate, and this is the indispensable sourcebook -- the key documents, placed in the deep context that only an expert can provide.? Stanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, editor-in-chief of The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History ?A fair-minded and accessible collection of key documents on the most important political/ constitutional scandal of the twentieth century, with succinct introductory essays by the acknowledged expert on the history of Watergate.? Jeffrey P. Kimball, Miami University, author of Nixon?s Vietnam War ?Four decades after Nixon?s election, Watergate remains the greatest constitutional crisis of our times, and any scholar, student, or citizen wishing to understand its enormity ? and why it rocked the nation like no act of executive wrongdoing before or since ? should peruse the documents in this indispensable volume.? David Greenberg, Rutgers University, author of Nixon?s Shadow: The History of an Image

The second edition of Watergate: A Brief History with Documents presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixon's acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon.* Includes transcripts of recently-released Watergate tapes that reveal Nixon's thoughts and reactions to events as they unfolded, and that deal with the identity of the anonymous source known as 'Deep Throat'.* Uses the crisis to explain how American politics and law work and provides an indication of the way the country may handle future crises* Provides brief summaries of what happened to various Watergate participants* Covers the entire span of time from Nixon's 1968 acceptance speech at the RNC until his pardon in 1974