@article{1408902,
      recid = {1408902},
      author = {Rosen, James,},
      title = {The strong man : John Mitchell and the secrets of  Watergate /},
      publisher = {Doubleday,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxv, 609 pages :},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {The first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the  central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and  the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on  criminal charges. As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to  1972, the most powerful man in the Nixon cabinet, Mitchell  stood at the center of the upheavals of the late sixties.  Biographer Rosen traces Mitchell's early life and career  from his Long Island boyhood to his mastery of Wall Street.  Mitchell brilliantly managed Nixon's 1968 presidential  campaign, then reluctantly agreed to serve as attorney  general. He steered Nixon through the Pentagon Papers and  Joint Chiefs spying crises; after leaving office, Mitchell  survived his own scandals--but was ultimately destroyed by  Watergate. Rosen resolves the central mysteries of the  Nixon era: the true purpose of the Watergate break-in, who  ordered it, the hidden role played by the Central  Intelligence Agency, and those behind the cover-up.--From  publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1408902},
}