An investigative reporter who encountered it all firsthand provides an in-depth look at more than fifty years of corruption, fraud, and abuse in America and in Washington, including McCarthyism and Nixon's abuses. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist shares his own eyewitness accounts of more than fifty years of American history as he sheds new light on the events and personalities--from Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover to Boris Yeltsin and Joe McCarthy--that transformed twentieth-century America. 100,000 first printing.