Watergate, Thomas Mallon
Watergate, Thomas Mallon
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Watergate

Author: Thomas Mallon

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 15 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/21/2012

Synopsis

From one of our most esteemed historical novelists comes a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generateduncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirsit falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some of the scandals greatest mysterieswho did erase those eighteenandahalf minutes of tape?and to see this gaudy American catastrophe in its human entirety. In Watergate, Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew before now. Praised by Christopher Hitchens for his splendid evocation of Washington, Mallon achieves with Watergate a scope and historical intimacy which surpasses even that attained in his previous novels and turns a thirdrate burglary into tumultuous, firstrate entertainment.

About Thomas Mallon

Thomas Mallon is the acclaimed author of several novels and nonfiction books as well as a collection of essays. A frequent contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and other magazines, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on January 11, 2020

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. Bob Woodward Trading arms for hostages in the Iran Contra Affair or starting an illegal war in Iraq are events we would expect to take influential people down, and yet amazing enough, it seems to usua......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 19, 2021

It has to be borne in mind that Nixon and his pal Kissinger were the warlords who ordered the carpet bombing of North Vietnam, the secret bombing of Cambodia (not secret to the Cambodians but they were under strict instructions to keep quiet about it) and were okay with the napalming of men, women a......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on May 06, 2012

Notorious prankster Richard Nixon and his wacky pals pull a practical joke on their political rivals. Hilarity ensues. Watergate has been examined backwards and forwards, but Thomas Mallon attempts to put a new spin on it here by telling the story as historical fiction from the viewpoints of several......more

Goodreads review by Jill on March 27, 2015

Weaving fiction with fact – particularly when the subject matter is as documented, analyzed, evaluated, dramatized, and talked about as Watergate – is a particularly audacious task. I thought I had exhaustively read just about anything that could be said about Watergate. I was wrong. Thomas Mallon’s......more

Goodreads review by Mary Ronan on February 27, 2012

Some authors are such favorites that you want to drop everything to read their new book the moment it's released. For me, Thomas Mallon is one of those must-read-now authors. He never disappoints. Dewey Defeats Truman, Bandbox, Mrs Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F Kennedy, although not what w......more

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