num_pages: 848
description: The blueprint for Nixons downfall based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013 most of which have never been published. When The Nixon Tapes: 197172 was published in August of 2014 it jumped immediately onto the NY Times bestseller list &amp; captivated media attention for its many revelations. Brinkley &amp; Nichters heroic efforts to transcribe &amp; annotate the highlights of over 3700 hours of recorded conversations provided an unprecedented window into the inner workings of a momentous presidency. Now with a concluding volume to cover the final year of the Nixon taping system they tell the rest of the storyonce again with revelations on every page including: how Nixon &amp; Kissinger knew privately that the 1/73 Vietnam peace agreement wouldn't hold how Nixon &amp; Kissinger anticipated the Yom Kippur War Nixons threat to send a division of tanks to kill Native Americans at the Wounded Knee standoff &amp; more...With Nixons dominating 1972 reelection receding into the background &amp; the Watergate scandal looming The Nixon Tapes: 1973 reveals the inside story of the tragedy that followed the triumph.
language: English
title: The Nixon Tapes: 1973
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston/NY)