President Nixon's psychiatric profile

Why Watergqte had to happen? Why, in the light of his childhood, family background, and personality, were the Nixon scandals inevitable? What in Nixon's psychological makeup actually freed him to assume extraordinary powers? Why did Nixon unconsciously fear the press? What was behind such Nixon mannerisms as his hand gestures and the phrase, "Let me make one thing perfectly clear? What was behind Nixon's selection of aides? Why did he feel a deep need to surround himself with such aides as Haldeman and Erilichman? In clear straightforward language, Dr. Eli S. Chesen supplies penetrating answers to these and other questions that have continued to perplex millions of Americans. Yet his book offers even more than a case history of the ex-president. Thoroughly documented, unprejudiced in its approach, it is at the same time an absorbing study of the nature of man. (From back cover of the book)