Watergate Remembered The Legacy for American Politics

The Watergate crisis continues to cast a long shadow over American politics. So many of the issues we confront today have their roots in the scandals of the Nixon administration. In this volume, a collection of essays by political scientists and historians from the United States and the United Kingdom, the contributors trace many of today's problems directly back to the Watergate crisis, and examine the legacy of Watergate for American politics today.

 MICHAEL A. GENOVESE holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of over thirty books, including The Paradoxes of the American Presidency (2010), Presidential Prerogative (2011), Memo to a New President (2008), and Contending Approaches to the American Presidency (2011).

IWAN W. MORGAN is a professor of US Studies and director of the United States Presidency Centre at the Institute for the Study of the Americas. He has written widely on the presidency, including Nixon (2002). His most recent book, The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush (2009), won the American Politics Group's Richard E. Neustadt Prize.

Introduction: Remembering Watergate--Michael A. Genovese and Iwan Morgan * Revisiting Arthur Schlesinger’s The Imperial Presidency--Jon Herbert * Watergate and the Decline of the Separation of Powers--Nancy Kassop * Watergate and Scandal Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Special Prosecutor--Clodagh Harrington * Vietnam, Watergate and the War Power: Presidential Aggrandizement and Congressional Abdication--David Gray Adler and Michael A. Genovese * Richard Nixon, Reputation, and Watergate--Iwan Morgan * The Ripple Effect of Scandal and Reform: The Historical Impact of Watergate-Era Campaign Finance Regulation and Its Progeny--Victoria Farrar-Myers * Nixon, Watergate, and the Attempt to Sway Public Opinion--Todd Belt * The Cinematic Watergate: From All the President’s Men to Frost/Nixon--Kingsley Marshall * The Long Legacy of Watergate--Michael A. Genovese