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In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations"-- Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon’s reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president’s darkest secret.Forty years after the fall of Saigon, and drawing on more than a decade spent studying Nixon’s secretly recorded Oval Office tapes--the most comprehensive, accurate, and illuminating record of any presidency in history, much of it never transcribed until now--
Fatal Politics tells a story of political manipulation and betrayal that will change how Americans remember Vietnam.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ken Hughes, researcher at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, is the author of
Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate (Virginia). His work as a journalist has appeared in the
New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe Magazine, and
Salon.
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Forty years after the fall of Saigon, and drawing on more than a decade spent studying Nixon’s secretly recorded Oval Office tapes - the most comprehensive, accurate, and illuminating record of any presidency in history, much of it never transcribed until now - Fatal Politics tells a story of political manipulation and betrayal that will change how Americans remember Vietnam.
