The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
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The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from the reach of prosecutors, Nixon returned to California, uncontrite and unconvicted, convinced that time would exonerate him of any wrongdoing and certain that h… More >>
The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
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Tags: Conviction, Frost/Nixon, Interviews, Nixon, Richard, Story, Untold
I returned the book – I didn’t want to read it — I kept the DVD
Rating: 1 / 5
I was really anxious to listen to this audiobook but I just could not maintain any real interest in the storyline. I thought it was hard to follow. If the actual interviews are on on the CD I didn’t recognize them but I couldn’t take anymore 1/2 through CD 3. I wanted to rehear the actual interview as it was broadcast. But there was way too much extraneous material that I found boring. Perhaps if I read the book it would have been better. Since I wanted to “listen” rather than “read” the fact that I disliked the narrator made my experience even worse as he just seemed to drone on. For my taste, the audio book was very disappointing and not recommended.
Rating: 1 / 5
I got this book and thought “what a good couple of evenings I am going to have reading this.” Wrong. It is mainly author Reston letting us know how intelligent and coy he and the “clectic” group he assembled are-but mainly himself. A two page letter of reccomendation from his mother would have sufficed for the 207 pages of this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Having watched way too much of the TV coverage for this year’s election, I have gotten increasingly annoyed not so much with the politicians’ attempts to BS people but with how little interviewers and reporters seemed to be interested in calling politicians on those attempts. As a bitterly needed lesson in what quality journalism can do – and can do on TV, that much-maligned medium! – to put politicians on the spot, I can’t think of a better book to read than historian James Reston’s THE CONVICTION OF RICHARD NIXON. The book, which reads like a thriller (so no surprise it’s the basis for an upcoming Ron Howard movie), is Reston’s brilliant chronicle about how he helped British uber-TV host David Frost nail Richard Nixon on Watergate during the famous Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. How Reston did it? The old-fashioned way: through dogged and persistent research; by ignoring the soundbites and looking at the facts instead; and, most of all, by having an independent and critical mind. Read it and be inspired to speak truth to power!
Rating: 5 / 5
James Reston’s experiences preparing David Frost for the Watergate segment of his Nixon interviews may have been exciting for the college professor, but his tale is disjointed and badly in need of citations. It appears his manuscript went to print unedited.
Rating: 1 / 5