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Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection
Ken Hughes
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Hardcover. In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows , 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 NixonAEs reelection bid of 1972 to expose the presidentAEs darkest secret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBWS2; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 526.
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.
While publicly Nixon promised to keep American troops in Vietnam only until the South Vietnamese could take their place, in private Nixon agreed with his top military, diplomatic, and intelligence advisers that Saigon could never survive without American ... Read more
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.
While publicly Nixon promised to keep American troops in Vietnam only until the South Vietnamese could take their place, in private Nixon agreed with his top military, diplomatic, and intelligence advisers that Saigon could never survive without American ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938028
SKU
V9780813938028
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About Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes, researcher at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, USA is the author of Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate. 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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