31 Days by Barry Werth
is about the first 31 days of the Ford administration, after Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal. The chapters are all one day in this series, and it is interesting to see the events played out that mention future characters (Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc.) but only as their roles were in 1974. The immediacy of this writing appeals to me, and then it ties it up in the end by explaining how these events shaped the government today. I think more than anything this book explains the thought process that went behind Ford’s decision to pardon Nixon--politically ruinous, but given Ford’s own personal history (his father was a jerk who didn’t pay child support and was involved in a long-running court dispute over this) his desire to forgive and put things behind him was understandable.
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