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Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate Collection

Here is a list of the best Watergate books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!

All the President’s Men (2014)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionThe most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened. One of Time magazine’s All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books, this is the book that changed America.
Author(s): Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA (2013)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionWhile 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?
Author(s): Lamar Waldron

Watergate: A Brief History with Documents (2009)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionThe second edition of Watergate: A Brief History with Documents presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixon’s acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon.
Author(s): Stanley I. Kutler

After Watergate: The Renaissance of Richard Nixon (2018)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionNo one had an inside view of the renaissance of Richard Nixon after Watergate better than the Secret Service Agent by his side for fourteen years—Michael Endicott.This is a story about politics, history, and power. But, most of all, this is a story about a working-class kid from the south side of Tacoma, Washington, who became a Secret Service Agent and traveled the world, building a relationship with one of America’s most controversial Presidents, Richard Nixon, and Mrs. Nixon.
Author(s): Michael A Endicott

Watergate (1995)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionHere is the definitive history of the Watergate scandal—based on the most recently released tapes, in-depth interview with many of the participants, and hundreds of official and unofficial documents, including notes Halderman omitted from his own published diaries. In this fast-paced, hard-hitting narrative, Fred Emery illuminates as never before the confluence of improbable events, dramatic errors, quirks of fate, and profane character flaws that led to the Watergate scandal.
Author(s): Fred Emery

The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate (2010)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionNo American history, government, or journalism collection is complete without this new edition of The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate, by Barry Sussman, the best account of the fall of Richard Nixon. It is a dramatic case study of tenacious reporting and suspenseful twists and turns in the political crime of the century.
Author(s): Barry Sussman

The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1992)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate Collection“The definitive account of Watergate.” ―St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author(s): Stanley I. Kutler

Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall (2015)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionRe-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.
Author(s): Elizabeth Drew

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis: With Excerpts from “An Essay on Watergate” (1994)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionThe Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis : With Excerpts from an Essay on Watergate
Author(s): Bill D. Moyers

Watergate In American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The Past (1993)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionA look at what Americans remember (and what they have forgotten) about one of the most traumatic domestic political event in the America’s post-war history.
Author(s): Michael Schudson

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story (2014)

 Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate CollectionEx-stripper Heidi Rikan was working for the mob in Washington, DC. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down Tricky Dick Nixon himself.Needless to say, this is not part of the usual Watergate story that has come down to us over the decades.
Author(s): Phil Stanford

Best Watergate Books: The Ultimate Collection

We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some watergate books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.

Watergate: A New History

Author(s): Garrett M. Graff
ID: 3214426, Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, Year: 2022, Size: 14 Mb, Format: epub

Watergate a New History

Author(s): Garrett graff m
ID: 3220947, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 15 Mb, Format: pdf

Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA

Author(s): Jim Hougan
ID: 3360714, Publisher: Open Road Media, Year: 2022, Size: 8 Mb, Format: epub

Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really chart-busters according to USA Today, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.

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