Title: The prosecution rests
Product review: This book by Anthony Summers is a prosecution of the presidency of Richard Nixon and his subject provides him with plenty of material. I would not call it a hatchet job, but I would not call it an accurate history either. Summers is obsessive with his footnotes, but it is the context of these anecdotes that seems awry.Summers make no real attempt at balance and Nixon's achievements are sidelined in his rush for the dirt of his presidency. And there is plenty of dirt to be found. I preferred Kutler's dissection in War's of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon to Summers' extended tabloid newspaper-style trashing. I am no fan of Nixon, but I am an opponent of senstationalism dressing up as accurate history.Bad, bad history.
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