Silent Coup

"25th anniversary edition - includes update."--Cover. This is the true story of betrayal at the nation's highest level. Unfolding with the suspenseful pace of a le Carre spy thriller, it reveals the personal motives and secret political goals that combined to cause the Watergate break-in and destroy Richard Nixon. Investigator Len Colodny and journalist Robert Gettlin relentlessly pursued the people who brought down the president. Their revelations shocked the world and forever changed our understanding of politics, of journalism, and of Washington behind closed doors. Dismantling decades of lies, Silent Coup tells the truth.

Challenges the accepted history of the fall of Richard Nixon and contains provocative new material based on interviews with G. Gordon Liddy, Spiro Agnew, Bob Woodward, and other key players