Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

by Elizabeth Drew

Book Overview

Re-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon's historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew's Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew's Washington Journal is a landmark work of political journalism. Keenly observed and hugely insightful, Washington Journal opens in 1973 and follows the deterioration of Richard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468309994
• ISBN13: 9781468309997
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

In Her Time

Elizabeth Drew was the greatest campaign reporter of her generation, and it all begins here. Told as events unfolded, without knowing what was around the corner, Drew's immediacy and constant astonishment gives us an emotional understanding of the time and the people involved than just about any later revisionist account. A beautiful time capsule, told from a generous-hearted liberal POV that's as vanished as the Hollywood Palace. (Go from here to her other campaign books, particularly "American Journal"[on 1976] and her masterpiece "Portrait of an Election"[1980, the year the dark age began which ends on 1/20/09].)