Nixon's darkest secrets
Subtitle: the inside story of America's most troubled president
By: Don Fulsom
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780312662967
Subjects: Politics and government; Friends and associates; Psychology; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; Political corruption; Presidents; Misconduct in office; Biography; History
Description: Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our most disgraced president, but the American people never knew the full extent of his demons, deceptions, paranoia, prejudices, hatreds, and chicanery -- until now.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Treason wins the White House; title: Ties that bind : the mob's president; title: Nixon's favorite godfather : Carlos Marcello; title: Mobster in the White House : Bebe Rebozo; title: Nixon and Rebozo : an intimate relationship; title: Nixon's wooing of Frank Sinatra; title: White House plots to kill Jack Anderson; title: Nixon's plots against Ted Kennedy and Daniel Ellsberg; title: Nixon's spymaster : E. Howard Hunt; title: Frank Sturgis : Nixon plumber and secret CIA assassin; title: Nixon's "Bay of Pigs" secrets; title: Watergate : what was Nixon seeking; title: Nixon : vice presidential puppeteer; title: Nixon's "best kept" war secret; title: Nixon orchestrates his own pardon; title: The world's most powerful drunk; title: Batterer in chief; title: Threatening to fire Kissinger, Ziegler : Nixon's war on the press; title: Backstage at the resignation; title: The post-resignation ribald raconteur.