Similarly, there are four canonical books on the scandal itself: Barry Sussman’s engaging and insightful The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate, from 1974; J. Anthony Lukas’s 1976 classic Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years, which managed to capture so much so early; Stanley Kutler’s 1992 classic The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon, which still stands as the preeminent exegesis of the scandal; and Fred Emery’s 1994 Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon.
