Books: Post-Mortem: The Unmaking of a President

HOW THE GOOD GUYS FINALLY WON by JIMMY BRESLIN 192 pages. Viking. $6.95.

U.S. v. RICHARD M. NIXON by FRANK MANKIEWICZ 263 pages. Quadrangle. $8.95.

THE LAST NIXON WATCH by JOHN OSBORNE 213 pages. New Republic. $7.95.

WATCHMEN IN THE NIGHT by THEODORE C. SORENSEN 167 pages. M.I.T. Press. $8.95.

BREACH OF FAITH by THEODORE H. WHITE 356 pages. Atheneum—Reader's Digest Press. $10.95.

Rushed, flawed, repetitive, sometimes contradictory, the first wave of post-Nixon Watergate books is now in full flood. The question is: Do the writers have anything much to say that Americans really want to...

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