Summers' biography of Richard Nixon reveals a troubled figure whose criminal behavior didn't begin with Watergate. Drawing on over 1000 interviews & 5 years of research, he reveals a man driven by an addiction to intrigue & power, whose subversion of democracy during Watergate was the culmination of years of cynical political manipulation. New evidence suggests the former president had problems with alcohol & prescription drugs, was at times mentally unstable & was abusive to his wife Pat. He discloses previously unrevealed facts about Nixon's role in the plots to topple Fidel Castro & Salvador Allende, his sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks in 1968 & his acceptance of funds from dubious sources. The Arrogance of Power shows how the actions of one tormented man influenced 50 years of American history, in ways still reverberating today.