Migliori Libri sul Watergate | Libri sullo scandalo del Watergate

Durante un difficile periodo per l’America, mentre la guerra in Vietnam è in pieno svolgimento, alla vigilia della campagna per le elezioni presidenziali (dove però i sondaggi danno come favorito proprio il Partito Repubblicano), negli uffici della Casa Bianca individui senza scrupoli e agenti della CIA stroncano con qualsiasi mezzo, anche illegale, ogni forma di dissenso. Ma due cronisti non ancora famosi, Carl Bernestein e Bob Woodward, camberanno il corso degli eventi. Il caso Watergate ha segnato la storia del giornalismo. L’inchiesta portata avanti da due giovani cronisti del “Washington Post” è diventata nel tempo il simbolo di un giornalismo di servizio, “cane da guardia” della democrazia. Generazioni di giornalisti, dal grande opinionista che firma l’articolo di spalla sul “Times”, al più misero corrispondente di provincia, hanno sognato almeno una volta di firmare l’articolo che mise sotto scacco l’uomo più potente del pianeta: il Presidente degli Stati Uniti d’America. L’iconografia della professione di giornalista si è arricchita di due nuovi grandi, Carl Bernestein e Bob Woodward, simbolicamente rappresentati dai loro doppi cinematografici Dustin Hoffman e Robert Redford, nell’omonimo film di Alan J. Pakula.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of our modern era. In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors; call police. The five men-Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Baker, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis-arrested and charged with attempted burglary that night kicked off the biggest scandal in American politics. Over the next two years, that single thwarted break-in would lead to dozens more arrests, an alleged kidnapping, FBI and congressional investigations, a Senate hearing, and bombshell testimonies from the highest levels of political power that ultimately would reveal a cover-up, sink a vice-president and a half-dozen Cabinet officials, lead to the jailing of an FBI director, end a presidency, and alter our views of moral authority and leadership. Watergate defined a decade, and a nation. And yet, recent revelations like the release of more Nixon tapes and the identity of “Deep Throat” himself, means that the full story has never been told from start to finish. Now, in Watergate, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Garrett M. Graff explores the full sweep of the scandal that would come to define all others, from the release of The Pentagon Papers in 1971-the first signs of trouble for the White House-and the 1972 DNC break-in to the denials, trials, hearings, and eventual downfall of the Nixon Administration three years later-the implications of which we still feel today. Watergate, Graff shows, is a much bigger and much weirder story than America remembers. Along the way, he introduces a vibrant cast of characters, including the psychologically tortured President and his doomed inner circle, special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski, the Congressional committees led by Sam Ervin and Peter Rodino, groundbreaking reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and Mark Felt, an Associate Director of the FBI who would conceal his identity for decades behind the name “Deep Throat,” as well a host of others whose involvement has been forgotten-from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to a young impeachment aide named Hillary Rodham. Grippingly told, meticulously researched, and featuring new details and never-told stories, Watergate is the defining, behind-the-scenes look at the era that upended the course of American politics-and life-as we knew it.

An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.

While Richard Nixon’s culpability for Watergate has long been established–most recently by PBS in 2003–what’s truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don’t address Nixon’s motive. Why was President Nixon willing to risk his reelection with so many repeated burglaries at the Watergate–and other Washington offices–in just a few weeks? What motivated Nixon to jeopardize his presidency by ordering the wide range of criminal operations that resulted in Watergate? What was Nixon so desperate to get at the Watergate, and how does it explain the deeper context surrounding his crimes? For the first time, the groundbreaking investigative research in Watergate: The Hidden History provides documented answers to all of those questions. It adds crucial missing pieces to the Watergate story–information that President Nixon wanted, but couldn’t get, and that wasn’t available to the Senate Watergate Committee or to Woodward and Bernstein. This new information not only reveals remarkable insights into Nixon’s motivation for Watergate, but also answers the two most important remaining questions: What were the Watergate burglars after? And why was Nixon willing to risk his Presidency to get it? Watergate: The Hidden History reexamines the historical record, including new material only available in recent years. This includes thousands of recently declassified CIA and FBI files, newly released Nixon tapes, and exclusive interviews with those involved in the events surrounding Watergate–ranging from former Nixon officials to key aides for John and Robert Kennedy. This book also builds on decades of investigations by noted journalists and historians, as well as long-overlooked investigative articles from publications like Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times.