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Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate
Ken Hughes
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Description for Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW3; JKVF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
In this provocative predecessor to Fatal Politics, presidential tapes expert Ken Hughes provides a shocking new perspective on a pattern of illegal actions by Richard Nixon only partly exposed by the Watergate scandal. Going back to the final months of the Johnson administration, Hughes reveals how Nixon secretly undermined the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese. He goes on to show how Nixon’s fears of his treasonous act's being exposed eventually led to illegal covert actions guided by the Oval Office. Through his unrivaled command of the secret White House tapes, Hughes builds an argument about Nixon that goes far ... Read more
In this provocative predecessor to Fatal Politics, presidential tapes expert Ken Hughes provides a shocking new perspective on a pattern of illegal actions by Richard Nixon only partly exposed by the Watergate scandal. Going back to the final months of the Johnson administration, Hughes reveals how Nixon secretly undermined the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese. He goes on to show how Nixon’s fears of his treasonous act's being exposed eventually led to illegal covert actions guided by the Oval Office. Through his unrivaled command of the secret White House tapes, Hughes builds an argument about Nixon that goes far ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937830
SKU
V9780813937830
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About Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes, author of Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection, is a researcher at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, USA. 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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