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‘Nixon’s Darkest Secrets’ by Don Fulsom

Former journalist’s harsh criticism is largely based on insinuation and allegation

By James Rosen

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 29, 2012

“I never quite got over Richard Nixon,’’ writes Don Fulsom, a former United Press International Washington bureau chief, at the beginning of “Nixon’s Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America’s Most Troubled President.’’ This is one of the few indisputable assertions in what is otherwise, and easily, the most virulently hateful book about the 37th president ever written - and the worst.

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