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The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
by: James Rosen

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.924092
EAN: 9780385508643
ISBN: 0385508646
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Sales Rank: 61471
Studio: Doubleday

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The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges.

As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals of the late sixties. The most powerful man in the Nixon cabinet, a confident troubleshooter, Mitchell championed law and order against the bomb-throwers of the antiwar movement, desegregated the South’s public schools, restored calm after the killings at Kent State, and steered the commander-in-chief through the Pentagon Papers and Joint Chiefs spying crises. After leaving office, Mitchell survived the ITT and Vesco scandals—but was ultimately destroyed by Watergate.

With a novelist’s skill, James Rosen traces Mitchell’s early life and career from his Long Island boyhood to his mastery of Wall Street, where Mitchell's innovations in municipal finance made him a power broker to the Rockefellers and mayors and governors in all fifty states. After merging law firms with Richard Nixon, Mitchell brilliantly managed Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign and, at his urging, reluctantly agreed to serve as attorney general. With his steely demeanor and trademark pipe, Mitchell commanded awe throughout the government as Nixon’s most trusted adviser, the only man in Washington who could say no to the president.

Chronicling the collapse of the Nixon presidency, The Strong Man follows America’s former top cop on his singular odyssey through the criminal justice system—a tortuous maze of camera crews, congressional hearings, special prosecutors, and federal trials. The path led, ultimately, to a prison cell in Montgomery, Alabama, where Mitchell was welcomed into federal custody by the same men he had appointed to office. Rosen also reveals the dark truth about Mitchell’s marriage to the flamboyant and volatile Martha Mitchell: her slide into alcoholism and madness, their bitter divorce, and the toll it all took on their daughter, Marty.

Based on 250 original interviews and hundreds of thousands of previously unpublished documents and tapes, The Strong Man resolves definitively the central mysteries of the Nixon era: the true purpose of the Watergate break-in, who ordered it, the hidden role played by the Central Intelligence Agency, and those behind the cover-up.

A landmark of history and biography, The Strong Man is that rarest of books: both a model of scholarly research and savvy analysis and a masterful literary achievement.

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- Fine Watergate book
The book is about 500 pages. Usually it takes me 3 weeks to read 500 pages, I don't read fast anymore. This book took me one week to read, enough said.

I hadn't read a Watergate book in a long time because I got tired of the same old themes: Mitchell:bad; Nixon:bad; Dean: hero; end of story, no need to read anything else. Whenever a historical opinion is unanimous, especially from American media, my skeptical antennae raise up.

It took 35 years, but finally an author, James Rosen has shed new light on the Watergate scandal. Take note, John Dean, you have been exposed as the fraud that you are. How dare you make money on writing books about government corruption these days. The author James Rosen has exposed you as
1. Probably the prime authorizer of the Watergate break-in itself, and if not, certainly the final "pusher" that motivated Magruder, Liddy to order/execute the ... Read More

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- the strong man and the secrets of watergate
reads like a novel. Also, a great lesson, pay attention to current events. Things are never what they seem to be at the moment. Should be in every classroom. Why isn't history taught this way? It would be much easier for individuals to make adult political decisions.The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate

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- Great Book
I was 22 when Watergate broke. I thought I knew a lot, I was wrong. No matter how much you think you may know about the Nixon era, until you read this book, you have no idea. Well researched, using unpublished material, you will enter the world of the Joint Chiefs spying on Kennedy and Johnson to things Liddy proposed you would never believe. Read it, you'll learn a lot.
William R. Bagwell

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- Great read
This is a very accessible book to anyone interested in the workings of government, and the bizarre power relationships between those who worked for an administration. Without skimping on details, James Rosen weaves the reader though the confusing paths of Mitchell's story, and the stories of Nixon's inner circle.

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