Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China Tapa blanda - 1973

Angus and Robertson Publishers, Sydney, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Acknowledgements, appendices and index. Between pages 120 and 121 there are 32 pages of black and vwhite photographs. Illustrated paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The 3 authors of this book, London Sunday Times journalists, investigate the bungled wiretapping at the Watergate hotel headquarters of the Democratic party for the 1972 presidential elections, and the subsequent fallout not only to the president Nixon but his closest advisers. The journalists " ... reveal that the assault on the Democrat's headquarters was only one incident in a long, determined campaign by the Committee to re-elect the President and its now notorious Department of dirty tricks to destroy the president's most formidable political opponents by espionage, black propaganda, bugging, forgery, financial chicanery, perjury and any other means considered effective –… Leer más

UsedVeryGood. The cover shows only light wear. Clean pages with no underlining or highlights.