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- catalog abstract ""The 1972 break-in at Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel - by five men acting under the direction of a Republican president's closest aides and his staff - created a constitutional crisis second only to the Civil War and ultimately toppled the Nixon presidency. With its sordid trail of illegal wiretapping, illicit fund-raising, orchestrated cover-up, and destruction of evidence, it was the scandal that made every subsequent national political scandal a "gate" as well." "A disturbing tale made famous by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men, the Watergate scandal has been extensively dissected and vigorously debated. Keith Olson, however, offers for the first time a "layman's guide" to Watergate, a concise and readable one-volume history that highlights the key actors, events, and implications in this dark drama. John Dean, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, Judge John Sirica, Senator Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, and the ghostly "Deep Throat" reappear here, in a volume designed especially for a new generation of readers who know of Watergate only by name and for teachers looking for a straightforward summary for the classroom."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12819343.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""The 1972 break-in at Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel - by five men acting under the direction of a Republican president's closest aides and his staff - created a constitutional crisis second only to the Civil War and ultimately toppled the Nixon presidency. With its sordid trail of illegal wiretapping, illicit fund-raising, orchestrated cover-up, and destruction of evidence, it was the scandal that made every subsequent national political scandal a "gate" as well." "A disturbing tale made famous by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men, the Watergate scandal has been extensively dissected and vigorously debated. Keith Olson, however, offers for the first time a "layman's guide" to Watergate, a concise and readable one-volume history that highlights the key actors, events, and implications in this dark drama. John Dean, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, Judge John Sirica, Senator Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, and the ghostly "Deep Throat" reappear here, in a volume designed especially for a new generation of readers who know of Watergate only by name and for teachers looking for a straightforward summary for the classroom."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.".
- catalog description "Patterns from the beginning -- Context of the break-in : motives and primaries -- The cover-up -- Disclosures -- The Senate committee, testimonies, and Butterfield disclosure -- The struggle for the tapes : from disclosure to the Saturday Night Massacre -- From the Saturday Night Massacre to the tape transcripts : November 1973 to May 1974 -- The consensus and the resignation -- Ends and means : Watergate and the Cold War -- Chronology.".
- catalog extent "x, 220 p., [14] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Watergate.".
- catalog identifier "0700612505 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0700612513 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Watergate.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Watergate.".
- catalog subject "973.924 21".
- catalog subject "E860 .O47 2003".
- catalog subject "Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Patterns from the beginning -- Context of the break-in : motives and primaries -- The cover-up -- Disclosures -- The Senate committee, testimonies, and Butterfield disclosure -- The struggle for the tapes : from disclosure to the Saturday Night Massacre -- From the Saturday Night Massacre to the tape transcripts : November 1973 to May 1974 -- The consensus and the resignation -- Ends and means : Watergate and the Cold War -- Chronology.".
- catalog title "Watergate : the presidential scandal that shook America / Keith W. Olson.".
- catalog type "text".