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Article: Watergate story.(The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate)(Book review)
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- National Review
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- September 15, 2008
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The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate, by James Rosen (Doubleday, 640 pp., $35)
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THIS book is more than a biography of former U.S. attorney general John Mitchell; it is also a keen and wide-ranging study of the entire Nixon presidency. Author James Rosen, a Washington correspondent for Fox News, aims "to ensure [that] the facts and lessons of the Watergate scandals are properly recorded," and to situate Mitchell, the "highest-ranking government official ever to be convicted on criminal charges," in the context of a turbulent era in which American society seemed to be unraveling.
Upon picking up The ...