‘Nixon By Nixon’ Review: His Legacy’s Got Legs But This Film Doesn’t Know How to Use Them

Last month, CBS Sunday Morning did a piece on the Nixon Tapes that was hardly revelatory, but the segment was really just promotion for a new book featuring transcriptions of the tapes by historians Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter (The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972, published last week). What was achieved there in eight minutes is spread out over more than a…