I've been reading (ebook) Watergate: A New History off & on since mid June...

[electric_blue68]

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from my library in chunks of 100 - 150 pages before my borrow time runs out. 😄 I guess they don't have many copies bc it takes 20 days until my next hold on it switches to "borrow".
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ETA: The other reason I chose this time to OP (then I forgot) was that the Chapter 32 which I am about to start
is called...
"A Russian Novel". (!!!!!) It seems to be an actual quote; but I don't know who said it... yet. How appropo!
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The style of writing is easy, but it's still a lot to keep track of. There's a bunch of earlier pre WG scandals/crimes I've mostly forgotten; though not Ellsburg. (I may have to reread The Chenault thing at some point)

I decided to read it bc I did live through it although I probably only caught nightly news snips & specials because I was in college. Read the (then Liberal) NY Post. I had seen in the movie theater All The President's Men when it came out. Almost positive I do remember Dean, and the taping system revelation/shock! Plus the 18 min "gap", and Mary Woods.

As I'm reading I do remember a bunch of the names, and sometimes what their occupations/titles were. Besides bringing old memories to the fore, plus learning new information; the sort of "Gotcha!!" sense there that is so satisfying(!) -
even with Ford pardoning him being a downer (and a 'parhway' for drumphf) - as we watch the walls tightening around drumphf now (yes, I still believe he might end up in prison). It's like Echoes of The Past "influencing" the Present.

I've gotten to the first few days of The Hearings w the Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox (whose name I remember), Sen Ervin (name and face ✔️ ), and Dash (name ✔️ ).

I can't wait till Dean's revelation!

Anyone else reading/read it? I think it's going to take 2-3 more borrows to finish it. 👍

[Ocelot II]

1. I've read it. It's very interesting - I remember the high points of Watergate very well

but there were a lot of details I didn't remember, or maybe never knew. The author does a really good job of tying all the threads together. And he reminds us that Nixon was an even bigger shit than we might remember, maybe because since TFG is such a colossal douche and he's still in our faces all the time, Tricky Dick doesn't seem as bad. But he was very bad.

[electric_blue68]

3. Yeah, he ended up being quite bad unfortunately for all...

It's true, though, that drumphf has run past Nixon by hundreds of miles, I think, in the bad deeds, and crimes categories.

Horrific!

[crickets]

2. I haven't read it,

and though I lived through the Watergate era, I was too young to catch much beyond the broad strokes. This book sounds like a good one; I'm going to get a copy and read it myself. Thanks for telling us about it!

[electric_blue68]

4. Aw, thanks!