To write King Richard, a chronicle of the Watergate conspiracy, veteran Washington Post reporter Dobbs (One Minute to Midnight) drew on thousands of hours of newly released taped recordings. New York Times best-selling author of The Secret Game, Ellsworth heads back to his hometown in The Ground Breaking to report on the reopened investigation into the Tulsa Race Massacre and reckon with its consequences. Guinn's War on the Border recounts Pancho Villa's blood-soaked raid on a small U.S. border town and Gen. John J. Pershing's Punitive Expedition, a retaliatory gesture (75,000-copy first printing). From Schulman, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the College of Staten Island and codirector of the ACT UP Oral History Project, Let the Record Show is a two-decades-in-the-making history of ACT UP's AIDSs advocacy. New York Times best-selling author White examines the 16th president's personal notes and jottings to show us Lincoln in Private.

The 1972 Watergate scandal remains a defining moment of the American presidency and the political system itself. Revelations from journalism, scholarship, memoirs, and President Richard Nixon's tapes have left little unknown about the scandal. But in this well-researched account, journalist Dobbs draws on recently released tapes to provide additional context for now infamous events—the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, and the wiretapping of the organization's offices. The denials and cover-up of these events led to Nixon's resignation in August 1974. A timeline helps readers keep track of the various political players involved, from the Committee to Re-elect the President; to investigators like Patrick Gray, tasked with uncovering the crime; to reporters like Helen Thomas, working to relay details to the public. The strength of the work stems from Dobbs's bringing lesser-known events into clear focus, such as John Dean's testimony before a senate committee. Included are archival photographs of Nixon during his time in office. VERDICT Spanning biography and history, this is a gripping narrative and a fine account of events in the presidency. Recommended for readers unfamiliar with Watergate or in need of a refresher.—Zachary Irwin, formerly with Penn State Behrend