Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon

"While All the President’s Men is primarily the story of uncovering the scandal, for a basic narrative of Watergate it doesn’t get better than this book by Fred Emery. How did Watergate start and who was involved? The great New York Times journalist Anthony Lukas’s Nightmare has unsurpassable character sketches of key Watergate figures, but it dates to the early seventies. In the 1990s, Fred Emery wrote this concise, fast-paced narrative of the whole Watergate scandal. It’s the book I recommend as an intro to Watergate."