Watergate: A New History — How Power Turned Secrecy Into a System
Watergate is often remembered as a burglary, an investigation, and a presidential resignation. The deeper story is how a political culture built around secrecy, loyalty, ambition, and perceived threat transformed separate abuses of power into a self-reinforcing institutional crisis.
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Using Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff as our lens, this investigation reconstructs the broader network hidden beneath the familiar scandal. Graff connects the Pentagon Papers, covert surveillance, political sabotage…
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