The core of Toobin’s tenth book is a compulsively readable, minute-by-minute account of how President Gerald Ford reached his decision in 1974 to pardon his disgraced predecessor, Richard Nixon, for the crimes uncovered during the Watergate scandal. ​It describes the high-stakes negotiations to set the pardon’s terms and determine the ownership of the former president’s papers and secret tape recordings. Initially received with public outrage, the pardon came to be seen as a courageous, even