{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Mallon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eHenry and Clara\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDewey Defeats Truman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFellow Travelers\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460098298130,"sku":"9780307474650","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f35ad184-1de2-497e-9256-197140f85759.jpg?v=1730026872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/watergate-9780307474650","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}