Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #914790 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 515 pages

Synopsis
This is the companion book to the Hollywood film, "Nixon". It includes the annotated screenplay, an interview with Oliver Stone, essays by prominent figures associated with Nixon and Watergate, previously classified memos and documents from the Nixon White House, and transcripts of Nixon's taped conversations in the Oval Office. Oliver Stone is the director, producer and co-author of "Nixon".

Customer Reviews

A significant collection of essays, screenplay and documents
'Nixon' will, in the passage of time, gain a better reputation. I feel it was overlooked, deliberately one may assume. It came between the excellent media-meltdown of 'NBK' and the b-movie overload of 'U-Turn'. It is an empathetic biopic of Richard Milhous Nixon and was lambasted by the vast anti-Stone media and comfortable historians alike...This book contains the shooting script, which can aid a viewing of this complex masterpiece (it has annotations to support lines). There is a foreword & introduction by Robert Scheer & Eric Hamburg- as well as an interview with Stone on his motivations behind making this film. The section prior to the screenplay is a collection of riveting essays by those with a perspective on the Nixon-era or who have a direct involvment in Watergate (John Dean, E.Howard Hunt). These essays provide a deeper perspective than the dramatic-film and will lead you to some notions of history and into the quagmire of the Nixon reign. They will also aid any students studying this era (amusing that a recent episode of teen-drivel 'Dawson's Creek' had him studying Watergate through 'All The President's Men'!); there is also included a bibliography of sources that the writers used in their research while writing the script. Stone did not just pull this out of his paranoia & history is malleable and open to question if you don't praise tenuous, holy facts. Finally, there is a collection of Watergate Documents and tapes; making this book extremely good value and full of information and starting points. Strange that writers like Don DeLillo and James Ellroy can be critically lauded for their fictional takes on recent history ('Underworld', 'American Tabloid/The Cold Six Thousand'), yet when someone attempts the same in film it is treated with such disdain?