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For a thousand-page book on Watergate, there is very little about Watergate in here. Most of it is about Nixon's ties with the mob from the late 1940s onward. Watergate doesn't happen until approximately 3/4 of the way into the book, and even then, the book focuses on possible mob involvement to the virtual exclusion of any other possible motive. The other problem I had with the book is that it is in rough chronological order, so events that occured in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s are described early in the book and involve a bazillion people, whose names and roles my poor befuddled brain couldn't retain for the next 900 pages. When the author then connects those events and people to Watergate, he refers the reader back to earlier chapters for the details. It would have helped to read a quick refresher paragraph about who this person was and what he/she had done in 1947 that impacted Watergate in the 1970s. I spent a lot of time googling references but in the end I didn't feel that I learned a whole lot about Watergate.
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