{"id":144553,"date":"2022-05-18T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144553"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:42:56","slug":"if-you-liked-gaslit-a-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144553","title":{"rendered":"If You Liked Gaslit: A Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you liked Jen’s recommendation of Watergate: A New History<\/a> by Garret M. Graf check out her Watergate reading list<\/p>\n

\"\" A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures<\/strong><\/a> by Ben Bradlee
\nThis is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of\u00a0American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief’s desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post.<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal History<\/strong><\/a> by Katharine Graham
\nIn lieu of an unrevealing Famous-People-I-Have-Known autobiography, the owner of the\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0has chosen to be remarkably candid about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage to the charismatic, manic-depressive Phil Graham, who ran the newspaper her father acquired. Katharine’s account of her years as subservient daughter and wife is so painful that by the time she finally asserts herself at the\u00a0Post<\/i> following Phil’s suicide in 1963 (more than halfway through the book), readers will want to cheer. After that, Watergate is practically an anticlimax. [goodreads<\/a>]<\/p>\n

All the President’s Men<\/a><\/strong> by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
\nThis is the book that changed America. Published just two months before President Nixon\u2019s resignation, All the President\u2019s Men revealed the full scope of the Watergate scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious \u201cDeep Throat.\u201d Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon\u2019s shocking downfall. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.[goodreads<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Final Days<\/strong><\/a> by Bob Woodward
\nThe Final Days is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon’s dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon’s fall from office — one of the gravest crises in presidential history. [goodreads<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Last of the President’s Men<\/strong><\/a> by Bob Woodward
\nBob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President\u2019s Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon\u2019s resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon\u2019s secrets, obsessions and deceptions. [goodreads<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost\/Nixon Interviews<\/a><\/strong> by James Reston, Jr.
\nThe Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from the reach of prosecutors, Nixon returned to California, uncontrite and unconvicted, convinced that time would exonerate him of any wrongdoing and certain that history would remember his great accomplishments\u2014the opening of China and the winding down of the Vietnam War\u2014and forget his \u201cmistake,\u201d the \u201cpipsqueak thing\u201d called Watergate. [goodreads<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Watergate: A Novel<\/strong><\/a> by Thomas Mallon
\nFrom 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\u2014uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs\u2014it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some of the scandal\u2019s greatest mysteries (who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape?) and to see this gaudy American catastrophe in its human entirety. [readthis<\/a>]<\/p>\n

A Bonus Podcast: Slow Burn<\/a> by Leon Neyfakh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you liked Jen’s recommendation of Watergate: A New History by Garret M. Graf check out her Watergate reading list A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of\u00a0American journalism and public life, of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":144554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,33,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery-list","category-jen-recommends","category-reading-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MV5BOWYxOTI0OTctZTNlZC00ODBiLWE2NDQtYzkzZDc5ZTFhMTA3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTM1MTE1NDMx._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BBv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144577,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144553\/revisions\/144577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}