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A retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.

Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan-then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine-set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was "the sixth man, the one who got away" when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim McCord, led a break-in team into a trap at the Watergate. Using...

"The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Brokaw writes, 'Even now, almost half a century later, I am astonished by...

Describes the events, personalities, and issues involved in the Watergate Affair, featuring quotes from primary source materials.

Describes the rise and fall of the man in the Nixon presidency who is said to have engineered many of the "dirty tricks."

"It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive...

The man who told a great deal during the summer of 1973 tells more, recounting his own scheming rise in the Nixon White House and the maneuverings, intrigues, blackmailing, betrayals, double lives, and moral blankness of his superiors.

"In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called "a full-blown cancer." King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate burglars and their handlers in the administration turned on one another,...

The story of Mark Felt, an FBI agent who uncovered the Watergate scandal in 1972.

"An exploration of President Nixon's contentious time in office, the Watergate scandal, and the people who helped protect our Constitution"-- Provided by publisher.