Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate

by Ken Hughes

Book Overview

The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as Ken Hughes reveals in his powerful new book, in all the thousands of hours of declassified White House tapes, the president orders a single break-in--and it is not at the Watergate complex. Hughes's examination of this earlier break-in, plans for which the White House ultimately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813936632
• ISBN13: 9780813936635
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher