Watergate -- Thomas Mallon

<p><b>A<i> New York Times</i> Notable Book<br>A <i>Washington Post</i> Notable Book<br>A <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i> Best Book of 2012<br>A 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist<br></b><br>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. <p/>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 <i>Watergate</i>, 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 <i>Watergate</i> 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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Thomas Mallon<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 01/08/2013<br><b>Pages:</b> 448<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.73lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.21h x 5.25w x 0.96d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780307474650<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times Book Review</i> 02/17/2013 pg. 24<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p><b>