Of course the writing of these outstanding journalists is expected to be, and is, clear, precise, and compelling. I've only glanced through it. The book is about the final days of the Nixon presidence. The jacket says it is a portrait of what went on behind the scenes during the gravest crisis in the history of the American presidency.

Well, with the current assault on civil rights and the recasting of presidental powers by George W Bush, the stacking of the Supreme Court, and the acquiescence of the Legislative Arm of the government, Nixon may only have been the precursor of things to com.