by Don Fulsom (Find the Book)
Former White House
reporter Fulsom (The Billary Quiz) mines his experience to offer the
"inside story" on Nixon, and the result is unfortunately a salacious,
demonizing account marked by unreliable sources and unapologetic
sensationalism of a flawed president and his equally flawed attendants.
According to Fulsom, Nixon initiated or approved numerous assassinations
that evenhandedly targeted foreign and domestic targets (including
columnist Jack Anderson); had homosexual tendencies; conspired with the
mob; was an anti-Semitic drunk; and for good measure, a horrible
husband. One unexpected element in the story is the role the Watergate
burglars may have played in the Kennedy assassination, and many old,
often conflicting, conspiracy saws are offered willy-nilly, including
the theory that Lyndon Johnson plotted to kill JFK. Fulsom's problematic
sources include "some JFK assassination researchers"; a little known
"veteran Nixon watcher"; and discredited New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison. Agent: Jane Dystel, Dystel & Goderich Literary
Management. -- Publisher's Weekly
