Nightmare: New Introduction

About this book

This extraordinary book had an extraordinary genesis. In July 1973 for the first time in its history the New York Times Magazine devoted a full issue to a single Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Lukass account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later a second installment ran in another full issue. Later the Times asked him to write still a third issue on the impeachment. This piece never appeared because it was overtaken by Nixons resignation. But Lukass painstaking reporting on Nixons last months in office appears here twenty-five years after his resignation for the first time in paperback along with added information on every aspect of Watergate.Widely acclaimed as a major text of the Watergate saga J. Anthony Lukass Nightmare with a new foreword from presidential historian Joan Hoff is an investigative masterwork highlighted by in-depth character sketches of the wide array of key players. As described by Publishers Weekly "The result is a model of measured judgment and of careful selection and synthesis and it is presented with such masterly narrative skill that one reads the old familiar story as if it were all new and fresh" - Publishers SummaryLukass 1973 volume is a detailed chronicle of Nixons last month in office. It was originally intended for the New York Times Magazine as part of a series on Nixons probable impeachment but his resignation killed the story. As dark a chapter in our history as it was and poisonous as it was to the U.S. citizenrys faith in the government Watergate nonetheless continues to fascinate. This first trade paper edition contains a new foreword by Joan Hoff. - Library Journal