The Final Days - Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

I bought this book 15 years ago after watching Oliver Stone's movie Nixon. The movie portrays Nixon as frankly unstable - drunk, depressed, out of touch with reality. I wanted to know if that was an accurate portrait or if it was just Oliver Stone's embellishment. It turns out to be accurate. I must have read this book 10 times, and it's fascinating every time. It is a comprehensive depiction of the White House over the year or so before Nixon resigned, not a reporter's eye view like All the President's Men.


The Final Days
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
1976
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