The Watergate Hearings: Break-in and Cover-up. Proceedings of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

by The New York Times

Genres: Nonfiction, History

878 pages

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won 112 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. Its website receives 30 million unique visitors per month.

Reviews

[Christopher Saunders · Rating 4 out of 5]

Condensed transcripts of the Ervin Committee's investigation into Watergate, along with an introductory essay from R.W. Apple, several chapters' worth of documents and brief profiles of the Senators, lawyers and witnesses involved. An extremely useful resource for researchers, given how little footage of the Ervin hearings are readily available (and how long they are, for those who have access) but probably too dense for lay readers.

[Anna Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a weird fascination for a political nightmare that ends without destroying the country. Except that you can seriously pull the threads from then to now. I read it first to comfort myself. In the end, it didn't. But the work these people did...

Probably shouldn't rate real life. But it was fascinating.

[Craig Wanderer]

If you think you know what Watergate was about, you do not