
By Douglas Brinkley, Luke Nichter
The blueprint for Nixon’s downfall, in keeping with tapes published from 2010 to 2013, such a lot of that have by no means been released. whilst The Nixon Tapes: 1971–72 used to be released in August of 2014, it jumped instantly onto the long island occasions bestseller record & captivated media awareness for its many revelations. Brinkley & Nichter’s heroic efforts to transcribe & annotate the highlights of over 3700 hours of recorded conversations supplied an remarkable window into the internal workings of a momentous presidency. Now, with a concluding quantity to hide the ultimate 12 months of the Nixon taping process, they inform the remainder of the story—once back with revelations on each web page, together with: how Nixon & Kissinger knew privately that the 1/73 Vietnam peace contract wouldn't carry, how Nixon & Kissinger expected the Yom Kippur warfare, Nixon’s chance to ship a “division” of tanks to kill local americans on the Wounded Knee standoff & more...
With Nixon’s dominating 1972 reelection receding into the history & the Watergate scandal looming, The Nixon Tapes: 1973 finds the interior tale of the tragedy that the triumph.