The American Spectator gives a fantastic review of a recent Post Hill Press title, Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon, by Ken Khachigian, calling it their “Political Book of the Year.”
“Ken Khachigian, who worked as an aide and speechwriter to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has written a marvelous memoir of those days that will delight political junkies and inform scholars and historians of the period. His book, Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon, transports us back to the finale of the Watergate saga, where he and a few other brave Nixon loyalists sought to convince the president to fight against what the British historian Paul Johnson rightly called a “media putsch,” and what Geoff Shepard has shown to be a political coup de etat by Democrats, the media, the special counsel’s office, and partisan federal judges. When he went to work for Reagan, Khachigian served as a confidential go-between for Nixon and Reagan, which allowed the former but “disgraced” president to secretly funnel political and policy ideas to candidate and President Reagan.”