{"product_id":"watergate-9780307474650","title":"Watergate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2012\u003cbr\u003eA 2013 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eWatergate\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eWatergate\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307474650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.21h x 5.25w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2013 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thomas Mallon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413616783541,"sku":"9780307474650","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_45a4e8a8-3733-42ba-b346-18c02a9477be.jpg?v=1720537972","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/watergate-9780307474650","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}