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Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy.'My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over,'President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive. Using presidential documents, diaries, prosecutorial records and hundreds of interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward chronicles how all five men failed first to understand and then to manage the inquisitorial environment.'The mood was mean,'Gerald Ford says. Woodward explains how Ford believed he had been offered a deal to pardon Nixon, then clumsily rejected it and later withheld all the details from Congre

Who reads Shadow : five presidents and the legacy of Watergate?

Author

Woodward, Bob.; Bob Woodward

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684852621

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (87 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14