Watergate

L'historien André Kaspi, spécialiste des États-Unis, revient dans un essai fouillé et rigoureux sur le scandale du Watergate (1974), qui aura notamment conduit à la démission du président Richard Nixon.

In November 1974, following the historic Watergate scandal, Americans went to the polls determined to cleanse American politics. Instead of producing the Republican majority foreshadowed by Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide, dozens of GOP legislators were swept out of the House, replaced by 76 reforming Democratic freshmen. In The Class of '74, John A. Lawrence examines how these newly elected representatives bucked the status quo in Washington, helping to effectuate unprecedented reforms.

The victory of Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1968 swung on an "October Surprise"— a treasonous plot engineered by key figures in the Republican Party to keep the South Vietnamese government away from peace talks in Paris, costing thousands of American lives.