"A revealing selection . . . For those of us who would never tolerate the crackle and confusion of earphone eavesdropping, these transcripts provide another dose of the ugly (also sometimes comic) shenanigans by which the Nixon team violated the Constitution and caused a president preoccupied with power - his own and the nation's - to suffer an ineluctable slide into impotence." --The New York Times Book Review "[Brinkley & Nichter] have done a great service." --Austin American-Statesman "Endlessly fascinating . . . Essential for students of late-20th-century American history and the Nixon presidency." --Kirkus, starred review --