The Last of the Presidents Men, Bob Woodward
The Last of the Presidents Men, Bob Woodward
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The Last of the President's Men

Author: Bob Woodward

Narrator: Campbell Scott

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2015


Synopsis

Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in this “intimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Office” (The Washington Post).

“Four decades after Watergate shook America, journalist Bob Woodward returns to the scandal to profile Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who revealed the existence of the Oval Office tapes and effectively toppled the presidency…Woodward re-creates detailed scenes, which reveal the petty power plays of America’s most powerful men…a close-up view of the Oval Office in its darkest hour” (Kirkus Reviews). In The Last of the President’s Men, Woodward reveals the untold story based on forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents—many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries—and uncovered new dimensions of Nixon’s secrets, obsessions, and deceptions.

“This volume…amplifies (rather than revises) the familiar, almost Miltonian portrait of the thirty-seventh president…as a brooding, duplicitous despot, obsessed with enemies and score-settling and not the least bit hesitant about lying to the public and breaking the law” (The New York Times). Today, The Last of the President’s Men could not be more timely and relevant as voters question how much do we know about those who are now seeking the presidency in 2016—what really drives them, how do they really make decisions, who do they surround themselves with, and what are their true political and personal values? This is “yet another fascinating gift to history by DC’s most relentless reporter” (Politico).

About Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward is the author of three consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers on President Trump—Fear (2018), Rage (2020), and Peril (2021) with Robert Costa—and an audiobook of 20 interviews with Trump. He has authored 22 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, covering every president from Nixon to Biden.

About Campbell Scott

Campbell Scott directed the film Off The Map, and received the best actor award from the National Board of Review for his performance in Roger Dodger. His other films include The Secret Lives of Dentists, The Dying Gaul, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and Big Night, which he also co-directed.


Reviews

Still More To Learn About Watergate It may not be the definitive book about Alexander Butterfield--who, along with John Dean, represents the true, honest patriots in the horrid administration of Richard M. Nixon--but Woodward's latest book is another reminder that, even decades later, there is more t......more

Goodreads review by Erik

Alexander P. Butterfield, assistant to H.R. Haldeman, then FAA Commissioner during the Nixon administration, is the fellow who revealed the existence of the White House voice-activated taping system when directly queried by a lawyer representing Republican investigators--the tapes which led eventual......more

Goodreads review by Jean

Alexander Butterfield was President Nixon’s White House Aide, who revealed the existence of the secret recording system in the White House when testifying to the Senate Watergate Committee on July 16, 1973. The book is well written and researched. Woodward is well known as the journalist that broke t......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

Almost fifty years after the events described, the author takes a look back on one of the country's most controversial eras. The subject of the book is Alexander Butterfield and his claim to fame is that he made known the secret taping system installed in the White House during the Nixon administrat......more