“Mailer said he wanted to establish something he called 'the Fifth Estate,' essentially an organization to investigate whether the United States was slipping into totalitarianism through a series of carefully manipulated conspiracies. He said it was the best political idea he ever had”

“Even before he had formally an­nounced his candidacy, Rudy’s sweet­heart relationship with the press spawned a wet-kiss orgy of free publicity”

“Mailer said at one point that it was necessary to forge a ‘hip coalition of the right and the left’ ”

Nixon Biographer John A. Farrell gets you up to speed on what's in store for the president