Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection

In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ( the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations – Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon’s reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president’s darkest secret.Forty years after the fall of Saigon, and drawing on more than a decade spent studying Nixon’s secretly recorded Oval Office tapes–the most comprehensive, accurate, and illuminating record of any presidency in history, much of it never transcribed until now– Fatal Politics tells a story of political manipulation and betrayal that will change how Americans remember Vietnam.