# Watergate Books...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 16, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watergate-books/789086 "2017-06-16T04:32:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watergate-books/789086/1 "2017-06-16T04:32:15Z")

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I’m looking for recommendations on good Watergate books published in the last 20 years or so. I’ve got some of the older books, like _All the President’s Men_, but I’d like a book (or books) that provides an overview with the inclusion of the tapes, and the Deep Throat reveal, and some of the other information that has come up as time passed.

Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watergate-books/789086/2 "2017-06-16T04:56:24Z")

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My recommendation is [The Wars of Watergate by Stanley Kutler](https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Watergate-Crisis-Richard-Nixon/dp/0393308278). Published in 1992. It’s excellent.

I have all the Watergate books that came out in the 1970s; the ones written by the participants and ones by journalists and this is the best written, best researched and most dispassionate chronicle of those events, IMO.

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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watergate-books/789086/3 "2017-06-16T21:43:17Z")

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Thank you. I will look for that.

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**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watergate-books/789086/4 "2017-06-16T21:55:57Z")

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John Dean’s [_The Nixon Defense_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0670025364/ref=rdr_ext_tmb) is a good recent one.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watergate-books/789086/5 "2017-06-18T01:07:17Z")

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This seems like a good place to mention that this is the 45th anniversary of the Watergate burglary.

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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watergate-books/789086/6 "2017-06-18T02:13:30Z")

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I knew that! The scandal began…