Comment on Book World: Thomas Mallon’s ‘Watergate’ is imaginative political farce

Ron Charles, Washington Post
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 11:04pm

Book World: Thomas Mallon’s ‘Watergate’ is imaginative political farce

Early in Thomas Mallon’s new novel about the Watergate scandal, President Nixon’s secretary wonders when her boss will get his own marble temple on the Mall. It’s the sort of arresting moment of naivete that frequently punctuates this witty, surprisingly humane dramatization of that vaudevillian chapter in American politics. Read full article >>

 

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