Watergate by Thomas Mallon

Watergate by Thomas Mallon

A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2012
A 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist

From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, 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 generated--uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs--it falls at last to a novelist reconstruct some of the scandal's greatest mysteries (who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half 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. Mallon achieves with Watergate a scope and historical intimacy that surpasses even what he attained in his previous novels, and turns a third-rate burglary into a tumultuous, first-rate entertainment.

Henry and Clara, Fellow Travelers, and Watergate are only a few of Thomas Mallon's works. He contributes to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications on a regular basis.

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ISBN 13	9780307474650
ISBN 10	0307474658
Title	Watergate
Author	Thomas Mallon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2013-01-08
Number of pages	448
Prizes	Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2013
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.