This book is a product of tape and document declassifications that happened in 2013 and 2014. Some of the revelations are worse than I expected (especially those related to the 1968 election). Richard Nixon is often caricatured as some kind of villain, but he was merely a human. A human who our system rewarded with great power. A human who saw his political enemies as legitimate targets in his personal lifelong war for validation. A petty human who's successors in office learned from him how to run covert wars with clandestine funds (Reagan), how to operate secret prisons, sanction torture and conduct unlimited eavesdropping on presidential orders (GW Bush). We too can learn from this human... and prevent such horrors.