Alex Robinson's Reviews > The Final Days

A riveting account of the Nixon presidency spiraling down the drain. I wouldn’t recommend it as your first Nixon book since the authors reasonably figured that anyone reading this book when it came out in 1976 would be familiar with the story so they don’t spend much time setting things up (you’d be better off starting with a more general Nixon bio)
But if you are already familiar with Watergate and the poor souls it ensnared this is compelling material and drama, even though you know how it will all shake down. The biggest surprise was the almost sympathetic portrayal of Tricky Dick himself, an awkward introvert under a tremendous strain of his own paranoid making. I’ve read many presidential bios but none of them featured as many commander-in-chief tears as this one.