Title: Overrated rehash of the Nixon tapes; poorly edited
Product review: Stanley Kutler's rehash suffers from poor editing. The number of errors contained in the text of the transcripts is truly astonishing. Kutler has made a minor profession of studying Nixon's downfall, but he can't even get right the name of the case that Richard Nixon personally argued in the U.S. Supreme Court, a case to which Nixon alludes in one of the recorded conversations contained in this book. That is only one example among many. The reason why these transcripts are so lacking, at least in part, is owing to the use by Kutler of commercial Court Reporters, not scholars. Kutler admits to the use of such novices in his introduction. A poor, poor job.
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