"Rich and kaleidoscopic… Dobbs has carved out something intimate
and extraordinary, skillfully chiseling out the details to bring the
story to lurid life."
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
From the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight:
a riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the
Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president.
In
January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning
re-election in a historic landslide. He enjoyed an almost 70 percent
approval rating. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as
the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John
Dean called “a full-blown cancer.” King Richard is the intimate,
utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the
Watergate conspiracy unraveled as the burglars and their handlers turned
on one another, exposing the crimes of a vengeful president.
Drawing
on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs
takes us into the heart of the conspiracy, recreating these traumatic
events in cinematic detail. He captures the growing paranoia of the
principal players and their desperate attempts to deflect blame as the
noose tightens around them. We eavesdrop on Nixon plotting with his
aides, raging at his enemies, while also finding time for affectionate
moments with his family. The result is an unprecedentedly vivid,
close-up portrait of a president facing his greatest crisis.
Central
to the spellbinding drama is the tortured personality of Nixon himself,
a man whose strengths, particularly his determination to win at all
costs, become his fatal flaws. Rising from poverty to become the most
powerful man in the world, he commits terrible errors of judgment that
lead to his public disgrace. He makes himself—and then destroys himself.
Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, King Richard is an epic, deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.
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