![]() ![]() Now, possibly because Donald Trump’s distortions and lies have dimmed our appetite for poetic license, the Zeitgeist seems to be swinging back to more conventional accounts. ![]() The last few decades have been particularly rich, and these are just some of the best re-interpretations: Rick Perlstein’s 2008 account, Nixonland Thomas Mallon’s fictionalized narrative, Watergate: A Novel, in 2012 Evan Thomas’s mind meld, Being Nixon, in 2015 Leon Neyfakh’s 2020 podcast, Slow Burn: Watergate and Michael Dobbs’s 2021 narrative history, King Richard. in the Washington Post writes, Do we need still another Watergate book The answer turns out to be yesthis one. Douglas Brinkley in The New York Times calls it dazzling and Len Downie Jr. On the day that he announced his resignation, Nixon ordered his usual lunch: cottage cheese with pineapple, and a glass of milk. Graff is an instant New York Times bestseller. Graff: An Excerpt - The New York Times 2023’s Best Books Fiction Nonfiction April Releases Critics’ Reviews Editors’ Choice Advertisement. Like “’Round Midnight,” his saga is so familiar and evocative that it inspires infinite riffs and fugues. ‘Watergate: A New History,’ by Garrett M. Some people argue that jazz isn’t entirely an American invention, but surely there is consensus that Richard Nixon is the jazz standard of American politics. ![]() ![]() And for good reason: we are living out his legacy, still. We know so much about Nixon, yet there’s no end to what we want to understand. ![]()
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