Watchmen in the Night: Presidential Accountability After Watergate

by James MacGregor Burns and Theodore C. Sorensen

Book Overview

In Watchmen in the Night, Theodore Sorensen, lawyer and advisor to President John F. Kennedy, offers a comprehensive examination of Watergate and what Richard Nixon's reign and resignation mean to the American Presidency. Rejecting both the assertion that Nixon was a mere aberration and the assertion that Watergate was a culmination of what other Presidents had done, Sorenson sorts out what was new and different in Watergate, including some frank...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262191334
• ISBN13: 9780262191333
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.