For those of you born after Nixon — in my case, I was only old enough to remember being mad that the Watergate hearings cancelled everything else on TV — two books I’ve found helpful to bring you back into the politics of that era are “It Didn’t Start With Watergate,” by Victor Lasky,

and, with a nice, short take on the media bias of the era, there’s “The Gods of Antenna,” by Bruce

Herschensohn (who many remember as a GOP candidate for Senate in California).

For example, he noted that The New Republic found the press performed a necessary function against the Nixon administration, but “they’re like dogs who have scented blood and running the fox right down to the death.”