Patterns from the beginning
Context of the break-in: motives and primaries
The cover-up
Disclosures
The Senate Committee, testimonies, and Butterfield disclosure
The struggle for the tapes: from disclosure to the Saturday Night Massacre
From the Saturday Night Massacre to the tape transcripts: November 1973 to May 1974
The consensus and the resignation
Ends and means: Watergate and the Cold War
Afterword / Max Holland.