Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

Elizabeth Drew was the greatest campaign reporter of her generation, and it all begins here. Told as events unfolded, without knowing what was around the corner, Drew's immediacy and constant astonishment gives us an emotional understanding of the time and the people involved than just about any later revisionist account. A beautiful time capsule, told from a generous-hearted liberal POV that's as vanished as the Hollywood Palace. (Go from here to her other campaign books, particularly "American Journal"[on 1976] and her masterpiece "Portrait of an Election"[1980, the year the dark age began which ends on 1/20/09].)