{"product_id":"watergate-isbn-9781405188487","title":"Watergate","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second edition of \u003ci\u003eWatergate: A Brief History with Documents\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixon's acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 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'.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses the crisis to explain how American politics and law work and provides an indication of the way the country may handle future crises\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides brief summaries of what happened to various Watergate participants\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the entire span of time from Nixon's 1968 acceptance speech at the RNC until his pardon in 1974\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cast of Characters viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWatergate: A Brief History 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Richard Nixon: At Work and in His Own Words 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcceptance Speech: 1968 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Personality of the President 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Man on Top 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII The White House Horrors 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlumbers and Enemies 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII The Watergate Break-In 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Burglary 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of the President’s Campaign Committee 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Did the White House Know? 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe White House Reacts: Private and Public Comment 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV Cover-Up! The White House Responds 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “Smoking Gun”: Using the CIA 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Money Trail 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Stonewalling” and Perjury 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV The Conspiracy Unravels: Judge Sirica, the Ellsberg Case, the Senate, and the Special Prosecutor 75\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFatal White House Leaks 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSirica and McCord 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefections: Dean and Magruder 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ellsberg Case 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNixon Responds 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe President and His Men: Taped Conversations, February–April 1973 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHaldeman and Ehrlichman Resign 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Special Prosecutor 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Special Prosecutor: Nixon’s Reaction 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Special Prosecutor Takes Over 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSenate Select Committee: John Dean 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSenate Select Committee: Ehrlichman and Haldeman 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSenate Select Committee: Revelation of the Tapes 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI The Tapes and the Saturday Night Massacre 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Battle for the Tapes 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe President Retreats 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOctober: The Cruelest Month 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Saturday Night Massacre 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe President Succumbs 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Special Prosecutor 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 18½-Minute Tape Gap 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII The Final Agony: Impeachment, Resignation, Pardon 167\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNixon Embattled 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impeachment Inquiry 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU.S. v. Nixon 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResignation 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pardon 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWatergate Special Prosecution Force Criminal Actions Final Report, 1975 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographical Note 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eStanley I. Kutler\u003c\/b\u003e is the E. Gordon Fox Professor Emeritus of American Institutions, History, and Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of several books on American history, including \u003ci\u003eAbuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), which resulted from his successful lawsuit against the National Archives and Nixon that forced the release of the long-suppressed Watergate tapes. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wars of Watergate\u003c\/i\u003e (1990).  \u003ci\u003eWatergate: A Brief History with Documents\u003c\/i\u003e places the reader at the epicenter of one of the most significant political scandals in American history. Watergate represented a constitutional crisis on a scale not experienced since the Civil War, and the documents included in this volume capture the powerful emotions of this crucial moment, revealing the partisan politics that were at play and the extraordinary efforts of participants to bring the episode to a conclusion without causing permanent damage to the Constitution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The documents include excerpts from speeches, news conferences, congressional testimony, memos, and court rulings. Transcripts of tapes involving the White House staff, President Richard Nixon, members of Congress, the CIA, and FBI, and others are supplemented with transcripts of recently released tapes that reveal Nixon's innermost thoughts and reactions to events as they unfolded, including his awareness of the identity of the anonymous source known as “Deep Throat.” This book serves as a powerful lesson in how American law and politics work and will resonate deeply with all readers, especially a new generation unfamiliar with the constitutional crisis that shook our nation and ultimately toppled a presidency.  “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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelvin Small, Wayne State University, author of\u003c\/i\u003e The Presidency of Richard Nixon\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, editor-in-chief of\u003c\/i\u003e The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffrey P. Kimball, Miami University, author of\u003c\/i\u003e Nixon’s Vietnam War\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Greenberg, Rutgers University, author of\u003c\/i\u003e Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990468837605,"sku":"NP9781405188487","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405188487.jpg?v=1761787950","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/watergate-isbn-9781405188487","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}