Postgate
How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism

Name: Postgate
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: John O'Connor
ISBN: 9781094096957

Author: John O'Connor

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 11/05/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, American Government, Corruption & Misconduct, Language Arts

Synopsis

Deep Throat’s lawyer discovers the Washington Post betrayed his client—while covering up the real truth about the Watergate scandal.The conventional wisdom of Watergate is turned on its head by Postgate, revealing that the Post did not uncover Watergate as much as it covered it up. The Nixon Administration, itself involved in a cover-up, was the victim of a journalistic smoke-screen that prevented mitigation of its criminal guilt. As a result of the paper’s successful misdirection, today’s strikingly deceptive partisan journalism can be laid at the doorstep of the Washington Post.After Deep Throat’s lawyer, author John O’Connor, discovered that the Post had betrayed his client while covering up the truth about Watergate, his indefatigable research resulted in Postgate, a profoundly shocking tale of journalistic deceit.In an era when numerous modern media outlets rail about the guilt of their political enemies for speaking untruths, Postgate proves that the media can often credibly be viewed as the party actually guilty of deception. Americans today mistrust the major media more than ever. Postgate will prove that this distrust is richly deserved.

About John O'Connor

John O’Connor is a director in Howard Rice’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on product liability, intellectual property, and business tort litigation. He earned his law degree at the University of Michigan, and his AB at Notre Dame University. He lives in San Francisco.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York. He has gone on to play many stage roles, both on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters from Los Angeles, Houston, and St. Louis to Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. He has appeared in films and television, both prime time and late night, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. Joe has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has been an Audie Award finalist eight times, and his narration of Gun Church by Reed Farrel Coleman won the 2013 Audie Award for Original Work. AudioFile magazine has granted Joe fourteen Earphones Awards, including for James Salter's All That Is and Donald Katz's Home Fires. Regarding Joe's narration of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, AudioFile said, "This moving book comes across like a concerto . . . with a soloist-Owen's voice-rising from the background of an orchestral narration." Joe is married to actor Andrea Wright, and together they have four very grown children.

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Quotes

“In Postgate, Mark Felt’s lawyer, John O’Connor, continues his masterful duel with Bob Woodward and the Washington Post. Having previously forced Woodward to name Felt as Deep Throat, O’ Connor now uncovers in Postgate layer upon layer of deceit concealing the true story of Watergate and its journalism. It is a must-read for anyone interested in our country’s most significant scandal.” Len Colodny, New York Times bestselling author

“John O’Connor’s Postgate is a welcome new piece of the Watergate puzzle. Part memoir as Deep Throat’s attorney, part deep dive into overlooked aspects of the nation’s greatest political scandal, Postgate is an investigation of the investigators—how the Washington Post crafted its coverage of Watergate, what was included, and what was left out.” Luke A. Nichter, author of The Nixon Tapes: 1973

“John O’Connor has done it again. The sleuthing attorney who uncovered the identity of the whistleblower of Watergate, Deep Throat—when every reporter, historian, and would-be detective failed—now sets his sights on the why of Watergate. More than forty-five years after the infamous break-in, pundits and politicians still cannot fathom the purpose of the botched political spy escapade. Building his case as the reader would expect from a brilliant courtroom lawyer, O’Connor takes us through the corridors of Washington power—including the Washington Post, the CIA, the FBI, and the White House—to discover the most probable answer—along with the episode’s real instigators.“ Dan Lungren, former US representative and attorney general for California