by THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES TEAM; LEWIS CHESTER, CAL McCRYSTAL, STEPHEN ARIS and WILLIAM SHAWCROSS
280 pages. Ballantine. $6.95.
(Paperback 267 pages. $1.50.)
Can Watergate be out as a book already? It can. And against all odds, most of this book is a solid, fast-moving, highly professional job. The four young British journalists who produced it at such breathtaking speed have a refreshingly foreign perspective that often cuts through the confusions to the core of the complicated affair. Their judgments are hard, yet not unexpected. Richard Nixon, they write, is a "not very brainy...