Title:
Nixon's darkest secrets : the inside story of America's most troubled president / Don Fulsom.
ISBN:
9780312662967
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.
Physical Description:
x, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Treason wins the White House -- Ties that bind : the mob's president -- Nixon's favorite godfather : Carlos Marcello -- Mobster in the White House : Bebe Rebozo -- Nixon and Rebozo : an intimate relationship -- Nixon's wooing of Frank Sinatra -- White House plots to kill Jack Anderson -- Nixon's plots against Ted Kennedy and Daniel Ellsberg -- Nixon's spymaster : E. Howard Hunt -- Frank Sturgis : Nixon plumber and secret CIA assassin -- Nixon's "Bay of Pigs" secrets -- Watergate : what was Nixon seeking -- Nixon : vice presidential puppeteer -- Nixon's "best kept" war secret -- Nixon orchestrates his own pardon -- The world's most powerful drunk -- Batterer in chief -- Threatening to fire Kissinger, Ziegler : Nixon's war on the press -- Backstage at the resignation -- The post-resignation ribald raconteur.
Summary:
Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our most disgraced president, but the American people never knew the full extent of his demons, deceptions, paranoia, prejudices, hatreds, and chicanery -- until now.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn740628670
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
